[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.384to 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 ASIATICSOCIETY 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 MAGAZINEfor December 1886.
[259]--"Bellary District Manual"(Kelsall),p.231.
[260]--"South Indian Inscriptions"(Hultzsch),p.132;and EPIGRAPHIAINDICA,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.
[274]--Scott,i.pp.262ff.;Briggs,iii.p.80.
[275]--Briggs has it "a daughter of Shew Ray."Rama married a daughter of Krishna Deva,who was son of the first Narasimha.
[276]--Inscriptions do not give us the name of any prince of the female line at this period.Briggs calls the uncle "Bhoj"Tirumala.Couto (Dec.VI.l.v.cap.5)renders the name as "Uche Timma,"and states that UCHE means "mad."[277]--Here we probably find an allusion to the reign of Achyuta.Rama was the elder of three brothers afterwards to become very famous.He and his brother Tirumala both married daughters of Krishna Deva Raya.Achyuta being,in Nuniz's belief,brother of the latter monarch,that chronicler calls these two brothers "brothers-in-law"of King Achyuta.(Below,p.367.)Nuniz says that King Achyuta "destroyed the principal people in the kingdom and killed their sons"(p.369).
[278]--Achyuta had then been for about six years on the throne.
[279]--If the Sultan's march towards Vijayanagar began in 1535--36,we shall perhaps not be far wrong in assigning Nuniz's chronicle to the year 1536--37,seeing that the author alludes to the dissatisfaction and disgust felt by the nobles and others for their rulers,which presupposes a certain interval to have passed since the departure of the Mussalman army.
[280]--Scott's edit.,i.265.
[281]--Scott spells the name "Negtaderee,"but I have substituted the rendering given by Briggs,"Venkatadry,"as less confusing.
[282]--Firishtah writes glowingly (Scott,i.277)of the grandeur of Asada Khan.He "was famed for his judgment and wisdom....For nearly forty years he was the patron and protector of the nobles and distinguished of the Dekhan.He lived in the highest respect and esteem,with a magnificence and grandeur surpassing all his contemporary nobility.The sovereigns of Beejanuggur and every country observing a respect to his great abilities,frequently honoured him with letters and valuable presents.His household servants ...amounted to 250.He had sixty of the largest elephants and 150of a smaller size.In his stables he had 400horses of Arabia and Persia,exclusive of those-of mixed breed foaled in India.His treasures and riches were beyond amount,"&c.
[283]--Firishtah's story of Asada Khan's life is contained in Scott's edition.i.pp.236--278;Briggs,iii.pp.45--102.
[284]--Dec.III.l.iv.cap.5.
[285]--Dec.IV.l.vii.cap.6.
[286]--Turugel is probably Tirakhol,north of Goa.
[287]--Couto tells us (Dec.VII.l.vii.c.1)that Rama Raya in 1555made an expedition against the Christian inhabitants of San Thome,near Madras,but retired without doing great harm;and it is quite possible that the king acknowledged no connection between San Thome and Goa.
[288]--EPIGRAPHIA INDICA,iii 147.
[289]--EPIGRAPHIA CARNATICA (Rice),Part i.p.176,No.120.
[290]--I have published a rough list of eighty-eight of these,eighty-four of which are dated,in my "Lists of Antiquities,Madras"(vol.ii.p.134ff.).
[291]--South Indian Inscriptions,"vol.i.p.70.
[292]--Dec.VI.l.v.cap.5.
[293]--"Tetarao,""Ramygupa,"and "Ouamysyuaya"(text,below,p.314).
[294]--Page 108.
[295]--Dec.VI.l.v.cap.5.
[296]--EPIG.IND.,iii.236.
