Of being wedded to thine only son."
CHANDRA.
A TALE OF THE FIELD OF TELLIKÓTA, A.D. 1565.
At length the four great Mahometan governments, A'dil Sháh, Nízám Sháh, Baríd, and Kútb Sháh, formed a league against Rám Rája, then ruling at Bijáyanagar. A great battle took place on the Kishna, near Tálicót, which, for the numbers engaged, the fierceness of the conflict, and the importance of the stake, resembled those of the early Mahometan invaders. The barbarous spirit of those days seemed also to be renewed in it; for, on the defeat of the Hindus, their old and brave rája, being taken prisoner, was put to death in cold blood, and his head was kept till lately at Bijapúr as a trophy.
This battle destroyed the monarchy of Bijáyanagar, which at that time comprehended almost all the South of India. But it added little to the territories of the victors; their mutual jealousies prevented each from much extending his frontier; and the country fell into the hands of petty princes, or of those insurgent officers of the old government, since so well known as zemíndárs or poligars.
The brother of the late rája removed his residence further east, and finally settled at Chandragiri, about seventy miles north-west of Madras, at which last place his descendant first granted a settlement to the English.—Elphinstone.
The setting sun sank slowly in the west,
The village labourer from the threshing-floor