A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.127

c19.127

But the most serious reverse which he suffered was at the hands of a chief named Ain-ul-Mulk, whom by ingratitude and ill-treatment he had driven into open rebellion. At the end of a short campaign against this person the royal troops were completely beaten, and the Sultan was driven to take refuge at Bîjapûr. In a state of desperation he called on the Râya of Vijayanagar for aid, and Râma, as usual representing the puppet sovereign, sent his brother, Venkatâdri, with a large force to expel the enemy from the Sultan’s dominions.¹ The story of the rebel “Ein-al-Moolk’s” discomfiture at the hands of Venkatâdri is thus told by Firishtah:²—