[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900) › c10.68 # A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c10.68 A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c10.68 - **Language:** English ### [c10.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10.68) A man of these seemingly opposite qualities, charity, generosity, and religious fervour linked to unbridled lust for blood and an apparently overmastering desire to take life, possesses a character so \*bizarre\*, so totally opposed to Hindu ideals, that he would almost of necessity be accounted as something superhuman, monstrous, a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint. Hence Muhammad in the course of years gathered round his memory, centuries after his death, all the quaint tales and curious legends which an Oriental imagination could devise; and whenever his name is mentioned by the old chroniclers it is always with some extraordinary story attached to it. - [Previous: c10.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10.67) - [Next: c10.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10.69) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10.68) · Pramāṇa