A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c17.20

c17.20

Early in his reign Devarāya was at war with Firuz Shah Bāhmanī—as a result, according to Ferishta, of the Hindu monarch’s infatuation for a beautiful girl who lived in Mudgal; but another account attributes it to Firuz’s determination to wage a jihad (holy war) against the Hindu monarch. The war went badly for Firuz at first but ended in a peace humiliating to the Hindu monarch who had to surrender the strategic fort of Bankapur, which commanded an important route from Vijayanagar to the Arabian Sea, and to give one of his daughters in marriage to the sultan.