[174] — Scott, i. p. 262.
[175] — This is very similar to the story told by Nuniz of the two sons of Virupaksha.
[176] — This again is similar to the tale Nuniz gives us of the minister Narasa and the two young princes.
[177] — Scott, i. p. 252; Briggs, iii. 66.
[178] — Firishtah has told us in a previous paragraph that "dissensions prevailed in Beejanuggur."
[179] — April A.D. 1493.
[180] — Scott's note to this is "about one million eight hundred thousand pounds sterling." Briggs (iii. p. 13) says two millions.
[181] — April 1509 to April 1510.
[182] — Da Orta was at Vijayanagar in 1534, at the same time as our chronicler Nuniz.
[183] — Colloq., x.