The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.39

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No attempt was made to effect the permanent annexation of these southern states; the triumphant victor admitting that he only exacted a temporary submission and then withdrew. But beyond doubt he despoiled the rich treasures of the south, and came back laden with golden booty, like the Muhammadan adventurer who performed the same military exploit nearly a thousand years later. Malik Kāfūr, the general of Alā-ud-dīn, Sultan of Delhi, during operations lasting from 1309 to 1311, repeated the performance of Samudragupta, and penetrated even farther south than his Hindu predecessor seems to have done. Malik Kāfūr occupied Madura in April, 1311, and from that base was able to reach Rāmesvarum, or Adam's Bridge, where he built a mosque, which was still standing when Firishta wrote his history in the sixteenth century.³