A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.27

c14.27

I am inclined to think that Deva Râya II. began to reign in 1419, for the following reason. The informants of Nuniz stated that during Vijaya’s reign he “ did nothing worth relating,” and the chronicle records that during the reign which followed, namely that of Deva Râya II., there was “ constant warfare.” Now we have it from Firishtah that in 1417 Fîrûz, Sultan of Kulbarga, commenced a war of aggression against the Hindus of Telingana. He besieged the fortress of Pangul,¹ seventy miles north-east of Adoni, for a period of two years, but the attempt to reduce it ended in failure owing to a pestilence breaking out amongst both men and horses.