Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s1.45

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Thus did the last prominent figure in Hoysala history, who seems to have ruled till A.D. 1343,⁶ suffering a disastrous defeat at the hands of the enemy, in his own way prepare the ground for some officers under him to gather strength against the common enemy. For with this constant changing of the last Hindu centre, the attention of the Muhammadans must have been considerably diverted.⁷ And the latter, although they had subjugated Warangal and Dēvagiri, routed the Hoysala forces in Dōrasamudra itself, and successfully intervened in the affairs of the Pāṇḍyan princes, did not succeed in wiping out completely all traces of the Hindu Power. As long as the Hoysalas held their own, so long did Hindu India remain. Whether or not the Muhammadans would have made a final attempt to crush the last stronghold of the Hindus is not certain; for about the year A.D. 1310 the minds of the Muhammadans in northern and central India were engrossed in domestic affairs which proved the ruin of their dominion in the land south of the Kṛṣṇa.