A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t3.43

c21.s3.t3.43

And after this was done Narsenaque began to make war on several places, taking them and punishing them because they had revolted. At that time it was proposed by some captains that they should kill the King, as he was not a man fitted to govern, but to this Narsenaque would answer nothing. After some time had passed, however, Narsenaque, pondering on the treason about which they had spoken to him, that it would increase his greatness and more easily make him lord of the kingdom of which he was (only) regent, called one day those same captains who had so proposed it to him, and asked them by what means the King could be slain without its being known.