A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of IndiaSewell, Robert
History
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India
Sewell, Robert
Vijayanagar (Empire) -- History
By these conquests the whole of his eastern dominions were brought
into entire subjection to the sovereign.
Nuniz writes as though the attack on Raichur immediately followed the
campaign against Udayagiri, Kondavid, and "Catuir," but, according
to the evidence afforded by inscriptions, these expeditions were at
an end in 1515, and the battle of Raichur did not take place for at
least five years later.
A long account of wars in the south-eastern Dakhan country
between Sultan Quli Qutb Shah of Golkonda and his neighbours, both
Mussulman and Hindu, is given in the third volume of Colonel Briggs'
"Firishtah,"[208] translated from a Muhammadan historian -- not
Firishtah himself; and as this certainly covers the period of at least
a portion of Krishna Deva's reign, it is well to give a summary of
it. I cannot, however, as yet determine the exact dates referred to,
and the story differs from that acquired from Hindu and Portuguese
accounts, the dates of which are confirmed by epigraphical records.
Sultan Quli proclaimed himself an independent sovereign in 1512. The
historian referred to states that shortly after this Quli attacked and
took Razukonda and Devarakonda, fortresses respectively south-east
and south-south-east of Hyderabad in Telingana. After the second of
these places had fallen Krishna Raya of Vijayanagar marched against
the Sultan with an immense army and invaded his dominions. This must,
I think, refer to about the year 1513. The Hindu army encamped at
Pangul, in the angle of the Krishna river almost due east of Raichur,
and here a battle took place in which the Qutb Shah was victorious
The place was then besieged; it capitulated, and the Muhammadans
proceeded to Ghanpura, twenty miles to the north. This fort was
captured after heavy loss, and the Sultan led his army to Kovilkonda,
twenty miles to the north-west, on the borders of the country of Bidar,
the territory of Ala-ud-din Imad Shah. This place also fell.
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