For by the age of Devaraya II, men wore shawls, scarves and caps, which were succeeded, as evinced through surviving sculpture and art, by ‘close fitting, high-necked, full-sleeved shirts or jackets that were usually buttoned down the front’. Similar innovations applied to the dhoti, which was ‘covered by broad girdles and waistbands, the whole ranging from knee-length to ankle-length’.85 In a custom originally introduced in the south by Muslim invaders as we saw after the defeat of Prataparudra of Warangal, the Rayas commenced the practice of bestowing robes of honour on dignitaries,
