[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900) › c19.113 # A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.113 A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.113 - **Language:** English ### [c19.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.113) Firishtah’s account of the Bijapûr Sultan’s conduct when he arrived at Belgaum is too suggestive to be omitted. The king, he says, “\*comforted his (Asada Khân’s) mourning family with khelauts and assurances of royal favour, but all his estates and treasures he took for his own use\*”—though these treasures were the accumulated property of a man whom the historian declares to have been, during the whole of his long life, the most faithful, courageous, and devoted adherent of his royal master, whom on many occasions he had personally rescued from difficulties which appeared almost insurmountable! The Portuguese account as to the fate of the treasures accumulated by Asada Khân is given by Mr. Danvers, who, treating the Khân as an unprincipled rebel, writes:— - [Previous: c19.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.112) - [Next: c19.114](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.114) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) — Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Firishta 1606, Persian - [Belgaum](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.belgaum) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.113) · Pramāṇa