Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.5

c19.5

Abdur Razāk, ambassador from Persia, 41, 173; visit of, to Vijayanagar, 3; on the administration of justice, 110; on the Audience Hall of the King, 402; on the cities and villages in the empire, 278; on dance during the Mahānavami festival, 295; on the dannaik being the judge at the capital, 33; on the Dombaras, 249-50; on the elephants in Dēva Rāya’s court, 149; on the extent of the Vijayanagar empire under Dēva Rāya II, 175; on the esteem in which Brahmans were held by Dēva Rāya II, 240; on the functions of policemen, 130; on the harem of Dēva Rāya II, 265; on the houses of the nobility, 279; on guilds, 223; on the independent courtezans at the capital, 267-68; on judicial and capital punishment at Vijayanagar, 126, 128; on the kissing of the royal feet, 273; on the Mahānavami festival, 271, 272, 293; on the method of hunting elephants, 293; on the method of writing, 353; on the ornaments worn by Dēva Rāya II, and the people, 287; on the paintings before houses, 413, and at the palace, 7; on the 300 ports in the empire, 166; on the relations of the Sumeri of Calicut with Vijayanagar, 177; on the seclusion in the harem, 265; on separate eating by the ‘infidels,’ 283 and fn.; on the size and form of Vijayanagar, 405-06, 407; on the strength of the Vijayanagar army, 134; on taxation on merchandise, 45fn.; on the three days’ festival, 340 fn.; on the time of the payment to the soldiers, 159; on the topography of the city, 278; on the use of the betel leaf, 289; on the working of the Secretariat, 36; presents to, by Dēva Rāya II, 173; supply of food to, at Vijayanagar, 281.