The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.43

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Muhammad marched to Rajamundry and relieved Malik Hasan, while Hambar shut himself up in Kondavīr and the raja withdrew to the northern bank of the Godavari, secured his position there by seizing all the boats which could be found, and, finding that nothing was to be gained by lingering in the neighbourhood, retired to Orissa. Muhammad followed him, invaded Orissa in February, 1478, and spent six months in the country, which he laid waste. He was contemplating its annexation when envoys arrived from the raja, bringing numbers of elephants and other rich gifts and charged with expressions of contrition, but Muhammad refused to retreat until the raja, most unwillingly, had surrendered other twenty-five elephants, the best which his father's stables had contained. On his return he besieged Hambar in Kondavīr, and on his surrendering granted him his life, but destroyed the great temple of Kondavīr, built a mosque on its site, and earned the title of *Ghāzī* by slaying with his own hand some of the attendant Brāhmans.