Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.51

c8.51

However, though the Persian ambassador affirms that there was only one judge at the capital, it is difficult to believe his statement completely. Speaking about the villages under the Madura Nāyaks, John Nieuhoff says that each village had two judges, who were much respected by the inhabitants.²⁸ If according to him each village had two judges, it is difficult to believe that there could have been only one judge at the capital of the vast empire of Vijayanagar.