History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c11.17

c11.17

⁹ The date 1334 given by Sewell is incorrect. According to Ibn Batūtah, Firishta, and Nunīz the country was conquered during the revolt of Bahā-al-Din Gashtāsp which occurred early in the reign sometime in 1326 A.D. Muhammad Tughluq's war against the Raja of Kampila was waged, according to Ibn Batūtah, because he had given shelter to the rebel and not, as Nunīz says, on account of greed of conquest. Ibn Batūtah further says that Belala Deo to whom Bahā-al-Din fled, unlike the Raja of Kampila, refused him shelter and sent him to the imperial army. Firishta corroborates Ibn Batūtah. The author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* who is an earlier writer than Firishta also says that Bahā-al-Din fled, and was captured by the Hindus who sent him alive to the imperial Durbar. Sewell, A Forgotten Empire, p. 18. Ibn Batūtah, III, p. 321.