A Forgotten Empire: (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the History of IndiaS. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1900 - 427 sider |
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India Robert Sewell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1900 |
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Abdur Razzâk Achyuta Âdil Shâh Adoni Ahmadnagar Alâ-ud-dîn amongst Ânegundi army arrived Asada Khân attack Barros battle Batuta Belgaum Bhatkal Bijapûr Brahmans Briggs brother Bukka Calicut called camp capital captains captured Chandragiri chief commanded Conjeeveram Crisnarao Dakhan Dâûd death Delhi Devagiri Dewul Roy elephants enemy festival Firishtah fled forces fortress gate given by Nuniz gives gold Golkonda governor Harihara Harihara II hills Hindu honour horse hundred Ibn Batuta inscription Kampli Khan King of Bisnaga king of Vijayanagar king's kingdom Kishen Roy Krishna Deva Râya Kulbarga land lord Mahummud Shaw marched miles minister month Mudkal Muhammad Muhammad Taghlaq Muhammadan mussulmauns Narasimha Nellore Nizâm nobles Nuniz Paes palace Portuguese prince Raichûr Râjah Rajahmundry Râma Ranga Râya's reign river royal Saka says sent sovereign story Sultan Telingana temple territories thousand foot thousand pardaos throne Tirumala took place troops Tungabhadrâ Vijaya walls Warangal women Ydallcão
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Side 203 - The plunder was so great that every private man in the allied army became rich in gold, jewels, effects, tents, arms, horses, and slaves, as the sultans left every person in possession of what he had acquired, only taking elephants for their own use.
Side 382 - See above, note to p. 377. who forthwith grants it. These are the common kinds of punishments, but they have others more fanciful ; for when the King so desires, he commands a man to be thrown to the elephants, and they tear him in pieces. The people are so subject to him that if you told a man on the part of the King that he must stand still in a street holding a stone on his back all day till you released him, he would do it.
Side 205 - Mussulmans had halted on the field of battle for rest and refreshment, but now they had reached the capital, and from that time forward for a space of five months Vijayanagar knew no rest. The enemy had come to destroy, and they carried out their object relentlessly.
Side 14 - ... the Emperor commanded the bedridden man to be projected from a balista, and the blind one to be dragged by his feet to Daulatabad, which is at the distance of ten days, and he was so dragged ; but his limbs dropping off by the way, only one of his legs was brought to the place intended, and was then thrown into it ; for the order had been that they should go to this place. When I entered Delhi it was almost a desert.
Side 84 - He takes to himself 12,000 wives, of whom 4,000 follow him on foot wherever he may go, and are employed solely in the service of the kitchen. A like number, more handsomely equipped, ride on horseback. The remainder are carried by men in litters, of whom...
Side 287 - At the end of this house on the left hand is a painted recess where the women cling on with their hands in order better to stretch and loosen their bodies and legs ; there they teach them to make the whole body supple, in order to make their dancing more graceful. At the other end, on the right...
Side 286 - This hall is where the king sends his women to be taught to dance. It is a long hall and not very wide, all of stone sculpture on pillars, which are at a distance of quite an arm's length from the wall ; between one and another is an arm's length and a half,, perhaps a little more. These pillars stand in that manner...
Side 245 - He is the most feared and perfect king that could possibly be cheerful of disposition and very merry; he is one that seeks to honour foreigners, and receive them kindly, asking about all their affairs whatever their condition may be. He is a great ruler and a man of much justice, but subject to sudden fits of rage...
Side 240 - These women are of loose character, and live in the best streets that are in the city ; it is the same in all their cities, their streets have the best rows of houses. They are very much esteemed, and are classed...
Side 175 - Europeans seemed to think that they had a divine right to the pillage, robbery, and massacre of the natives of India. Not to mince matters, their whole record is one of a series of atrocities. It is sad to turn from the description given us by Paes of the friendship felt for the Portuguese, and especially for Christovao de Figueiredo, by the "gallant and perfect...