Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 349.5

349.5

and having killed three petty rajas in action, and taken their country, he returned to his capital: but the heirs of those slain, collecting a large force, retook their countries, and the rajas of Cochin and Cananore continued to support and befriend the Portuguese. Samiry, a thousand times more incensed than ever, distributed largesses to his troops, and marched to Cochin; but finding the Portuguese had sailed and left the place, he returned to his capital, and immediately despatched ambassadors to Judda, in the Red Sea, to the Deccan, and to Guzerat; informing the respective sovereigns of those countries, that the Portuguese had behaved in the most cruel manner to his Mahomedan subjects, and that he was unable to withstand their forces. He states: — “I am not apprehensive for my own country, but for my Mahomedan subjects; for, although myself a Hindoo, I conceive it my duty to protect them as if they were also of the same persuasion. But the King of Portugal is wealthier than I; and as I find that by destroying these invaders they increase their numbers on the following year, I am reduced to solicit the assistance of the Mahomedan kings; so that I entreat you, by the value you place on your religion, to send your ships filled with victorious troops into these seas, to attack the Europeans, and entitle yourselves to have your names enrolled in the list of holy warriors, who in supporting the cause of religion have become inhabitants of paradise.”