History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.143

c6.143

A contemporary poet Jyotirīsvara in his comedy entitled *Dhūrtsamāgama* speaks of the Sultan of Dihli being defeated by Hari Singh Deva, ruler of Mithila in the second decade of the fourteenth century. The Sultan of Dihli can be no other than Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq who led an expedition to Bengal. The comedy speaks of a good fight with the Sultan, a statement which is corroborated by Firishta.⁶⁵ As the comedy was played before Hari Singh Deva, it must have been composed sometime after 1324 A.D. But Jyotirīsvara is a court poet and a panegyrist who enjoyed the patronage of Hari Singh Deva, and in a comedy intended to be played before his master it cannot be expected that he would speak of his defeat at the Sultan's hands. Firishta is right in saying that