Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c14.s2.9

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Although he begins his account by saying that he had gathered materials "from various historians",³ yet another contemporary author, 'Ali-Bin 'Aziz-Ullāh Tabātaba, who wrote the Burhān-i Ma'āsir,⁴ never mentions a word of it in his account of Firūz Shāh. The Burhān-i Ma'āsir does not contain any detail about the wily Brahman, the beautiful daughter of the goldsmith of Mudkal, and the terrible consequences that followed Dēva Rāya's attempt to win the Mudkul beauty for himself. But, on the other hand, 'Ali Tabātaba narrates the consequences of a campaign which was led by Firūz Shāh, who used "his best endeavours in the suppression of infidelity and the strengthening of the Faith", and, therefore, "contemplated the conquest of Vijayanagar; so in a short time he marched an army in that direction and subdued and killed the infidels of those parts".⁵