A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) Part 29

[226] -- IDEM, cap. 8.

[227] -- IDEM, cap. 9.

[228] -- IDEM, cap. 10.

[229] -- "Asia Portugueza" of Faria y Souza, I. Pt. iii. cap. 4 (Stevens' translation).

[230] -- Compare Nuniz (text, p. 329).

[231] -- These numbers are probably taken from Barros, who copied Nuniz.

[232] -- "Asia Portugueza," I. Pt. iii. cap. 4, sec. 5. "Ruy de Mello, que estava a Goa, viendo al Hidalchan divertido con sus ruinas o esperancas, o todo junto, y a muchos en perciales remolinos robando la tierra firme de aquel contorno, ganola facilmente con dozientos y sincuenta cavallos, y ochocientos peones Canaries"

[233] -- "Histoire des Descouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais"

(Paris, 1733).

[234] -- Danvers, "The Portuguese in India," i. 347, gives us the same dates for Sequeira's absence, and mentions De Figueiredo's presence at the battle of Raichur.

[235] -- The corresponding actual new moon day in May 1521 was Monday, May 6, and the new moon was first visible on Wednesday. In 1522 the actual new moon day was Sunday, May 25, and it was first visible on Tuesday.

[236] -- Paes says that on an emergency he could raise even two millions.

[237] -- "Handbook of Indian Arms," pp. 15 -- 16.

[238] -- Above, p. 12.

[239] -- OP. CIT., p. 18.

[240] -- Below, p. 292.

[241] -- Below, pp. 384 to 389.

[242] -- Liv. ii. c 16.

[243] -- Commander-in-chief.

[244] -- Below, p. 333.

[245] -- "OMDE ACHAVEIS ... HO QUE AVIEIS MISTER."

[246] -- "VERIEIS."

[247] -- "ACHAREIS."

[248] -- Below, pp, 346, 347.

[249] -- Below, p. 351.

[250] -- Vol. i. p. 347.

[251] -- Vol. i. p. 533.

[252] -- We hear nothing of this from Firishtah. But we know that the Bahmani Sultan Mahmud II., who died in 1518, had three sons, Ahmad Ala-ud-Din, and Wali-Ullah, the first of whom became Sultan in December 1517, the second in 1521, the third in the same year; in all cases only nominally.

[253] -- Dec. III. l. iv. c. 10.

[254] -- Correa, Stanley's translation (Hakluyt edition, p. 387, note; Danvers, "Portuguese in India," i. 363. The "Suffilarim" is Asada Khan.

Mr. Baden-Powell has published, in the JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY for April 1900, an interesting paper on the king of Portugal's regulations for, and record of customs in, the newly acquired tracts, dated at Goa in A.D. 1526, and called FORAL DOS USOS E COSTUMES.

[255] -- Dec. IV. 1. vii. c. 1.

[256] -- Mallik Barid. The Hidalchan is the Adil Khan or the Adil Shah; Madre Maluco is the Imad Shah, and Cota Maluco the Qutb Shah.

[257] -- Perhaps this matter ought to find place under the reign of Achyuta Raya, but I mention it here as it may have occurred before the death of Krishna Deva.

[258] -- Article "Vijayanagar" in the MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE for December 1886.

[259] -- "Bellary District Manual" (Kelsall), p. 231.

[260] -- "South Indian Inscriptions" (Hultzsch), p. 132; and EPIGRAPHIA INDICA, BY the same author, iv. 266.

[261] -- JOURNAL, BOMBAY BRANCH, ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, xii. 336, &c.

[262] -- EPIG. IND., i. 398; iv. p. 3, note 4.

[263] -- I have broadly declared this relationship, but, as a matter of fact, almost every inscription and literary work in the country differs as to the genealogy of the sovereigns who reigned from this time forward. Nuniz, however, as a contemporary writer residing at the capital, is an excellent authority.

[264] -- EPIG. IND., iv. 3, note 4 (Professor Kielhorn).

[265] -- Scott's edition, i. 252.

[266] -- These names are discussed below.

[267] -- This is apparently an error. The period was only ten years.

[268] -- 16th Safar, A.H. 941 (Firishtah).

[269] -- Firishtah, Briggs, iii. 374 -- 375.

[270] -- "Lists of Antiquities, Madras," vol. i. p. 181 (No. 86), and p. 182 (No. 115).

[271] -- Scott's translation, i. p. 262.

[272] -- Below, p. 367.

[273] -- IDEM, p. 354.