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the Krishna, in which, after a doubtful conflict, the Raja was taken and 

 his troops defeated. The Hindu accounts assert that the divisions of 

 - KuTTEBBHAT and Nizam ShXh that had been defeated, and those of Ali 

 A'dil Shah and Amdat-ul-Mulk covered the retreat when the Hindus, 

 giving themselves up to festivity, were surprised by the rallied forces of 

 the enemy, and thus overthrown. Ferishta admits that the wings of the 

 Muhammedan army were thrown into disorder, and that some of the 

 leaders despaired of the day when it was retrieved by the efforts of the 

 centre under NizXm Shah, and by the capture of Rama Raja. Caesar 

 Frederick states that the loss of the battle was owing to the treachery of 

 two of the Raja's commanders who were Muhammedaiis, and who, in the 

 heat of the action, turned upon the Hindu divisions. Both Muhammedan 

 and Hindu accounts agree that Rama Raja was put to death immediately 

 after the battle, according to the one by A'dil ShAh, according to the 

 other by Nizam Shah. 



After the action, the allied Sultans marched to Vijayanagar and laid it 

 waste, and then withdrew. The families of Rama and his brethren, with 

 the captive King, made their escape, and after a whole year Temona 

 Raya, the surviving brother returned to his capital and attempted its reorga- 

 nization. The country was, however, in so much disorder, and the roads 

 so infested with robbers, that he found the attempt hopeless, and in 1567, 

 Tetuedi io Pemiaconda, eight days' journey from Vijayanagar. Endowments 

 in the name of the pageant king Sadasiva continued to be made until 

 1570, and the pedigree carries on his family to the extinction of the direct 

 line. Sriranga, who it may be supposed was the son of Sadasiva, suc- 

 ceeded to his father. The 9th in descent from him, Venkatapati, fled before 

 the Moghul arms to Chandragiri, where a branch of the descendants of 

 RXma ruled. His successor, Rama Rao, recovered a considerable extent of 

 country apparently about Anajundi and Vijayanagar, and the line conti- 

 nued for seven generations more to 1756, when Trimal Rao was dispossessed 



