At length the four great Mahometan governments, A'dil Sh'h, N'z'm Sh'h, Bar'd, and K'tb Sh'h, formed a league against R'm R'ja, then ruling at Bij'yanagar. A great battle took place on the Kishna, near T'lic't, 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 r'ja, being taken prisoner, was put to death in cold blood, and his head was kept till lately at Bijap'r as a trophy.
This battle destroyed the monarchy of Bij'yanagar, 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 zem'nd'rs or poligars.
The brother of the late r'ja 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.
