The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c7.58

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Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapur was one of those whose help they sought for the moment. They urged him to depose Salakam Timma, promising him their assistance and offering him the crown of Vijayanagara if the country could be freed from that dreadful tyrant⁴. But the usurper, obtaining intelligence of their designs, also despatched an embassy with a sum of six lakhs of huns and many precious gifts to the Bijapur Sultan, soliciting him to march to his assistance, and promising in return to acknowledge his suzerainty and to pay down another sum of three lakhs of huns for every day’s march his army might make. Ibrahim Adil Shah, tempted by this offer, and finally moved by the advice of the old general Asad Khan, left his capital and arrived at Vijayanagara without opposition: Timma himself went to fetch him and conducted him into the city and seated him on the royal throne and ordered rejoicings for seven days. Some of the nobles acknowledged him as Sovereign¹: they were evidently the intimate friends of Salakam.