A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c15.30

Language: English

c15.30

Firishtah and the *Burhān-i Maāsir* differ considerably as to what followed. The former states that, after his raid into Orissa, Muhammad Shāh reduced Kondapalle, where he destroyed a temple, slew the Brahman priests attached to it, and ordered a mosque to be erected on its site. He remained nearly three years at Rajahmundry, secured the Telingana country, expelled some refractory zamindars, and "resolved on the conquest of Nursing Rāya."

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