The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c16.144
The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c16.144
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16. The departure of the Court from Vijayanagara to Penukonda naturally encouraged the secular covetousness of the Sultans of Bijapur and Golkonda; that confession of the weakness of the Hindu government was a tacit invitation to them to seize the territories North of the Empire. Accordingly Ali Adil Shah, in the year 1568, captured the fortress of Adoni, which "was fortified with eleven walls, one within another, so that it appeared impossible to reduce it by force" ⁴. It was then that Malik Rahiman Khan was appointed first Mussulman governor of Adoni ¹.