The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c15.124

v1.c15.124

Who were these two Mussulman generals who so treacherously deserted the Vijayanagara army? Their names are found nowhere, but I suspect that one of them was that Ain-ul-Mulk whom Rama Raya used to call his brother ³, and at whose request Sadasiva granted the village of Bevinahalli to the Brahmans ⁴. He seems to have come from a family of traitors. His father, mentioned also in the aforesaid grant as 'the chief Ainana Malukka,' was beheaded for treason at Bijapur in 1553, during the reign of Ibrahim Adil Shah ⁵; and it was perhaps then that his son "offended Ibrahim Adil Shah, left his service and entered that of Ramraj" ⁶. As a matter of fact we find one Ain-ul-Mulk in the army of the Sultan of Bijapur in the subsequent wars with the Sultan of Ahmadnagar ⁷.