Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s10.4

v1.c15.s10.4

Brutality breeds brutality, and the exigencies of war know no mercy. There is some truth in the statement of Firishtah that the Hindus treasured up the resentment of ages in their minds, especially when we remember the fact that from the early days when poor Haripāla had been flayed alive to the frightful times when Vināyaka Dēva suffered an equally inhuman treatment at the hands of Muhammad Shāh Bāhmani I, it was one long and painful era of mutual misunderstanding and revengeful retaliation which justified the actions of neither the Hindus nor the Muhammadans.