South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c11.2.3

c11.2.3

There they halted for preparations ‘for extirpating Billal Deo and other Deos (demons).’ Here the Rai Raiyan, Ram Deo, true to his allegiance forwarded all the preparations necessary for the equipment of the army ‘to render it available for the extermination of rebels and the destruction of Bir and Dhur Samundar.’ That was not all. The Rai Raiyan, who had already sent ahead his Daḷavāy (Dalvi, Commander-in-Chief) Paras Deo (Parasuram Deo) ‘to hold the gates of access to the Bir and Dhur Samundar’ was directed by his master to see to the wants of the Muhammadan army. On the seventeenth of Ramzan, the army departed ‘from Imanabad Deogir to the Kharabad of Paras Deo Dalvi, in five stages, in which three large rivers were crossed,’ the three rivers being ‘Sini, Godaveri and Binhur (Bhima).’ Then ‘after five days the army arrived at Bandri, in the country (Ikta) of Paras Deo Dalvi, who rendered all the assistance for the ultimate conquest of “Bir Dhul and Bir Pandi.”’ At Bandri, Malik Kafur stayed sometime to obtain information of the state of things in Ma’bar. According to Amir Khusru he was informed that there were two rulers in Ma’bar, of whom the elder was Bir Pandya and the younger Sundara Pandya who till then were friendly, but had gone to war against each other at the time. ‘Billal Deo, the Rai of Dhur Samundar (Dvārasamudra), had marched down upon their cities with the object of plundering, but returned on hearing that the Muhammadan army was on the march.’