Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c14.s2.13

v1.c14.s2.13

Even in the details of this war, Tabātaba differs essentially from the imaginative Firishtah. According to the latter, Dēva Rāya was compelled to pay to Firūz Shāh, among other things, "ten lacs of hoons, and five muns of pearls".¹ But 'Ali Tabātaba writes "Deva-dār" (i.e., Dēva Rāya) "penitently asked for pardon", and agreed to pay "thirty-three laks of tanka and that each year a fixed sum should be sent to the foot of the royal throne . . .".² In the description of a second war waged by the Sultan "against the infidels of the country of Vijayanagar", too, the Burhān-i Ma'āsir is silent about the singular clause of the marriage mentioned by Firishtah.³ Tabātaba informs us that Firūz Shāh "every year exacted from the infidels of Vijayanagar the sum of thirty-three laks of tanka, as originally fixed";⁴ that "towards the end of his reign he was compelled once more to march against Vijayanagar; and was determined to take the fort of Pangal", but that in the course of this war, "fortune turned against the arms of the Muhammadans"; and that "the army of Islam being completely defeated the Sultan marched from that place (Pangal), halting nowhere till he reached the village of Ittakur . . .".⁵