One neighboring state of the Vijayanagara Empire was the Bahmani Sultanate. It was located to the north of Vijayanagara and often engaged in military and diplomatic relations with the empire.
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The orders of the king
Thus speaks king Devanampiya Piyadassi: In the past, there were no arrangements for disposing affairs, nor for receiving regular reports. But I have made the following (arrangement). Pativedakas should report to me about the affairs of the people at all times, anywhere, whether I am eating, in the inner apartment, in the bedroom, in the cow pen, being carried (possibly in a palanquin), or in the garden. And I will dispose of the affairs of the people everywhere.