Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.149

c19.149

Barbosa (Duarte), on the arrangements of streets according to occupation, 280, and *fn*.; on the attendance of men by women in war, 266-67; on the choice of men for the army, 136; on the Council room of the Vijayanagar kings, 27-28; on the decision of the king in his Council on the necessity for going to war, 150; on the dietary of the Vijayanagar kings, 281-82; on the dress of women, 286; on duelling, 291-92; on the food of the Brahmans, 282; on the harem, 265; on the lead-dress of women, 286; on hook-swinging, 345; on the houses in the harem, 264; on the houses of the nobility, 279; on the Jogis, 345; on kings seldom going to war in person, 153; on Malabar and Vijayanagar, 177; on the march of the army, 151; on the method of writing at Calicut, 354; on the ornaments of the people, 287-88; on the pay of the soldiers, 160; on the performance of sati, 258, 260; on the pleasures afforded by the women of the harem, 268-69; on the price of horses, 148; on the punishment for failure to conform to the obligations of the Nāyakas, 196; on the rivalry among the wives of the king, 263 and fn.; on the sense of security in the Vijayanagar empire, 129; on setting fire to temporary cities, 153; on the shooting of the three arrows by the king after the review of the forces, 161; on the soldiers "living according to their own law," 137, 144; on the starting of the king for war, 151; on the strength of the Vijayanagar army, 134-35, 136; on the tonsure of widows, 262; on the training and attainments of the women, 270; on the training given to the dancing girls, 295; on the use of shoes and umbrellas, 285; on the voluntary nature of sati, 260; on the Vijayanagar empire, 196-97; on the wealth of the courtezans at the capital, 267-68; on women following the army, 165; resentment of, against certain classes of Brahmans, 244.