The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.419

v3.c20.419

He was succeeded by ‘Ādil Shāh, whose coins were dated A.H. 757 (A.D. 1356), and he by Fakhr-ud-dīn Mubārak Shāh, whose earliest coins are dated in A.H. 761 (A.D. 1360), and who apparently reigned until A.D. 1368–69, or perhaps until A.D. 1372–73, when he was succeeded by ‘Alā-ud-dīn Sikandar Shāh, whose latest coin is dated in A.H. 779 (A.D. 1377–78). The rising power of the great Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar had, some years before, begun to overshadow the small Muslim state of Madura, and an inscription of Sangama I, the founder of the first dynasty of Vijayanagar, records a victory over ‘that proud lord of Madura, the valiant Turushka.’ In another inscription of 1371 Goppana, commanding the army of Bukka I, son of Sangama and third raja of Vijayanagar, claims a victory over the Turks of Madura, and the date of Sikandar’s latest coin is probably that of the extinction of the Muslim dynasty of Madura by Bukka I.