Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.84

c6.84

The pursuit of a strong and vigorous foreign policy was another of the sovereign’s duties. The king should wait for the most favourable opportunity to attack the enemy. If the enemy had internal foes in his kingdom, then the king was to sow the seeds of dissension in that country and thus weaken the State so that it would be easier for him to conquer the land.⁴⁸ But if the ruler in the buffer State should be friendly with the enemy and hostile to the king who created the State then it should be destroyed.⁴⁹