A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c13.39

c13.39

According to this treaty, which was entered into a few months before the close of the Hijra year 801, *i.e.* a few months before 3rd September A.D. 1399, the boundaries of the two kingdoms were to be the same as before the war, and each party agreed to refrain from molesting the subjects of the other. This does not look as though the Sultan had gained any very material advantage in the campaign, since the true boundary was always a subject of dispute. I obtain the date above given from Firishtah’s sentence:—“In a few months after the conclusion of this campaign, and the beginning of the year 802, the sultan marched to punish Nersing,” a chief who had raised disturbances on the borders of Berar.