A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c15.62

c15.62

“This Indian stronghold was ultimately taken by Melikh Khan Khoda, who stormed it, and fought day and night to reduce it. The army that made the siege with heavy guns had neither eaten nor drunk for twenty days. He lost 5000 of his best soldiers. On the capture of the town 20,000 inhabitants, men and women, had their heads cut off, 20,000 young and old were made prisoners and sold. . . . The treasury, however, having been found empty, the town was abandoned.”