Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c9.s5.3

c9.s5.3

In the Vijayanagar court, "foreign conquest was a more fashionable theme than domestic finance."¹⁷⁰ Of course the old ideas about righteous warfare were remembered; but how far the theories were translated into actual practice is a question. Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, however, not only laid down certain principles that must guide the kings in their war policy, but also acted up to them in certain respects.