A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of IndiaSewell, Robert
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India
Sewell, Robert
Vijayanagar (Empire) -- History
(F) The king of Vijayanagar will allow no Moorish ship or fleet to
stop in his ports, and if any should come he will capture them and send
them to Goa. Both parties agree, to wage war on the Adil Shah, and all
territory taken from the latter shall belong to Vijayanagar, except
lands on the west of the Ghats from Banda on the north to Cintacora
on the south, which lands shall belong to the king of Portugal.
[308] -- Muharram, A.H. 956. But the Portuguese records state that
Asada Khan died in 1545 (Danvers, i. 465).
[309] -- Danvers' "Portuguese in India," i. 465, 466.
[310] -- Briggs, iii. 328.
[311] -- Below, p. 383.
[312] -- Briggs' "Firishtah," iii. 397, &c.
[313] -- Senhor Lopes has recently found amongst the archives in
the Torre do Tombo in Lisbon a paper, dated 1555 A.D., which states
that the king of Vijayanagar had consented to aid Ibrahim Adil Shah
against Ain-ul-Mulkh and "the Meale" (I.E. Prince Abdullah, called
"Meale Khan" by the Portuguese), in return for a present of 700,000
pardaos (CORPO CHRONOLOGICO, Part i., packet 97, No. 40).
[314] -- Scott's edit., i. 284.
[315] -- The Muhammadans seem to have always treated Rama Rajah as
king. Sadasiva was perhaps too young at that period to have had a son,
and the allusion is probably to a son of Rama.
[316] -- King Sadasiva was apparently not strewn.
[317] -- That Ali Adil actually made this visit is confirmed by the
narrative of a Golkonda historian, whose work has been translated and
published by Briggs (Firishtah, iii. 402). The story may be compared
with that told above of the visit of Firuz Shah Bahmani to King Deva
Raya in A.D. 1406, which had a similar ending.
[318] -- Dec. VII. l. vii. c 1.
[319] -- See also Briggs' "Firistah," iii. 403 -- 405.
[320] -- Firishtah relates an interesting anecdote about this in
his history of the Ahmadnagar Sultans. Hussain Nizam Shah desired
to make peace with Vijayanagar, and Rama Raja offered to grant it on
certain conditions, one of which was that Kallian should he restored
to Bijapur, and another that the Nizam Shah should submit to pay him a
visit and receive betel from him. Hussain was in such straits that he
accepted these severe terms and went to Rama Raja's camp, "who rose on
his entering his tent (he did not go out to meet him) and kissed his
hand. The Sultan, from foolish pride, called for a basin and ewer,
and washed his hands, as if they had been polluted by the touch of
Ramraaje, who, enraged at the affront, said in his own language,
'If he were not my guest he should repent this insult;' then calling
for water, he also washed." Hussain then gave up the keys of Kallian.
[321] -- Scott's "Firishtah." i. 291; Briggs, iii. 406.
[322] -- 20th Jamada 'l awwal, Hijra 972. Firishtah (Scott), i. 295;
Briggs, iii. 413.
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