Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s10.9

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If the Hindus could make a platform of skulls of the enemy on the battlefield, the Muhammadans could celebrate a festival on a similar occasion for three days after slaying every time twenty thousand men. Ahmad Shāh Bāhmani continued the war of A.D. 1422, and "without waiting to besiege the Hindoo capital overran the country; and wherever he went, he put to death men, women, and children, without mercy, contrary to the compact made between his uncle and predecessor, Mahomed Shah and the rays of Beejanuggur. Whenever the number of slain amounted to twenty thousand, he halted three days, and made a festival in celebration of the bloody event. He broke down, also, the idolatrous temples, and destroyed the colleges of the bramins".¹