A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.s1.66

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A long account of wars in the south-eastern Dakhan country between Sultan Qulî Qutb Shâh of Golkonda and his neighbours, both Mussulman and Hindu, is given in the third volume of Colonel Briggs' "Firishtah,"¹ translated from a Muhammadan historian—not Firishtah himself; and as this certainly covers the period of at least a portion of Krishna Deva's reign, it is well to give a summary of it. I cannot, however, as yet determine the exact dates referred to, and the story differs from that acquired from Hindu and Portuguese accounts, the dates of which are confirmed by epigraphical records.