an inscription, dated AD 1345, in which the Reddi dynasty of Andhra describes how after the elimination of the Kshatriya defenders, the duty of defending cows and Brahmins fell on the Shudras, “born of the feet of Vishnu”; the first independent Reddi king, Vema, “restored all the agraharas of Brahmanas, which had been taken away by the wicked Mleccha kings
