Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.672

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Nuniz, account of, about the contributions of the feudal vassals, 50; account of Sāluva Timma's part in the Raicūr campaign, by, 34; evidence of, on the use of guns at Vijayanagar, 150; on the alleged abdication of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 12fn., and 15-16; on Acyuta Rāya and the nāyakas, 195; on Acyuta Rāya's harem, 265; on the advance troops of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya to Raicūr, 151; on the banquet of Dēva Rāya II's brother, 283 and fn.; on the beds of Acyuta Rāya and his queens, 289-90; on the Brahmans and law, 113; on the cap of Acyuta Rāya, 284; on the Chief of the Guard, 39; on a class of two hundred "captains", 142-43; on the construction of a lake by Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 84; on the dancing girls attached to the palace, 295; on the dietary of the Brahmans, 282, and of the Vijayanagar kings, 281; on the dispensation of justice by the king, 113; on the division of Hindu army at Raicūr by Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 152; on duelling, 291; on the duties from Nāgalāpura, 61; on the equipment of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's army that marched to Raicūr, 137; on the farming out of the main gate at Vijayanagar, 79; on the feudal contingents in the Vijayanagar army, 137-39; on the Governor of Vijayanagar, 234; on the governorship of Salvanayque, 192; on the grant of receipts, 90-91; on a group of officers who were never allowed to settle in towns or cities, 197-8; on the Hindu army that marched to Raicūr, 146; on the honours the Provincial Governors were entitled to, 191;

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on the income and military and financial obligations of a few Provincial Governors, 192-94; on the increase of the state revenue on account of the construction of a lake by Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 74; on the invitation of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya to Vīra Bhadra for a duel, 292 fn.; on judicial procedure at Vijayanagar regarding criminal cases, 123, 124; on the "King's Guard" of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 141; on the king's secretary, 273; on the kissing of the royal feet, 273; on Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's announcement of war to neighbouring neutral states, 171-72; on Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's ignoring the advice of his Council, 32; on Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's offer of a human sacrifice, 345; on Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's punishment of Sāluva Timma for his alleged murder of Tirumala, 240; on Kṛṣnadēva Rāya's summoning his Council when Ibrāhīm Ādil Shāh refused to surrender Cide Mercar, 164; on Mallikārjuna's grants to pagodas, 100; on the military expenditure of the Vijayanagar kings, 99; on the ministry of Dēva Rāya II, 28, 29; on the minor officers of the army, 159; on Narasā Nāyaka's appointment as administrator, 17; on the nature of the revenue collections at Vijayanagar, 96; on the nāyaṅkara system, 82; on the "noble art," boxing, 403; on the offer of sacrifice during the Mahānavami festival, 339; on the officer in charge of the clothes, 274; on the ownership of land, 199; on the payment of revenue by the governors from their provinces, 91, 190; on the performance of sati, 258-60; on the permanent force of Kṛṣnadēva Rāya, 136;

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on police organisation at Vijayanagar, 130-31; on the programme of the kings, 277; on public women in the war camp, at Raicūr, 267; on the punishment for criminal offences at Vijayanagar, 126; on the punishment for failure to conform to the obligations by the Nāyakas, 196, 200; on the punishment of Sāluva Timma, 127; on recognition of distinguished service, 277; on the relations of Calicut with Vijayanagar, 177; on the royal kitchen, 282-83; on the rulers who paid tribute to Acyuta Rāya, 177; on salām at the Vijayanagar court, 273; on Sāḷuva Narasimha's attaching great value to horses, 148; on Sāḷuva Timma's position in the kingdom, 35; on the ‘Secretary,’ 194; on the services rendered by the women in the king's harem, 265-66; on shields, 147; on the shooting of three arrows by the king after the review of the forces, 161; on the siege of Raicūr by Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, 157; on the spies in the Vijayanagar armies, 171; on the sthānāpati, kept by the provincial governors at the imperial court, 198; on the strength of the army of Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya which marched to Raicūr, 135; on the subordinate kings of Vijayanagar, 141, 202; on the system of farming, 61-62; on the time of payment to the army, 159; on Tirumala's coronation (?), 12 fn.; on the war elephants at Vijayanagar, 149; on the wealth of Salvanayque, 139; on wrestling, 291; reference by, to Rāyasams as ‘secretaries,’ 37; resentment of, against certain classes of Brahmans, 244;

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value of the chronicle of, for the study of the revenue administration under Vijayanagar, 41.