...the more prosperous Central Deccan : "The inhabitants are proud-spirited and warlike, grateful for favours and revengeful for wrongs, self-sacrificing...sanguinary to death with any who treated them insultingly." (Watters's Yuan Chwang, ii. 239.) "If they are going to seek revenge, they first give their enemy warning."...

...inhabitants were proud spirited and warlike, grateful for favours and revengeful for wrongs, self sacrificing towards suppliants in distress and sanguinary to death...in battle went into conflict intoxicated, and their war elephants were also made drunk before an engagement." About Pulakesin II the Chinese pilgrim observes,...

...Pulakesin II's reign, also observes: 'The inhabitants were proud-spirited and war-like, grateful for favours and revengeful for wrongs, self-sacrificing...suppliants in distress and sanguinary to death with anyone who treated them insultingly.' According to Hiuen Tsang, the people were fond of learning. An...