भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

[गोवाभिदां (भिदानाम्) कोकण राजधानीम्] 880-881. It is impossible and unnecessary to give the lineages of the Vijaynagar or any other royal families in this volume. It is enough to say that the kings who succeeded Harihar II also added to the glory of Vijaynagar. There was only one unhappy exception of a weak and imbecile king named Devrai, who came to the throne in A.D. 1406. He did hate the Muslims, but he found a strange expedient for destroying the Muslim powers, that of employing Muslim warriors in his army, as the Muslim rulers employed the Hindus! But seeing his weak and vacillating nature, those Muslim warriors in his employ became so very conceited, that they refused to bow down to him in his very courtly assembly, as they never bowed their heads before any mortal! So, for their satisfaction, Devrai had the Book of the Koran placed on a high pedestal beside him, so that when they bowed, the Muslims were satisfied that they did so to the Koran and not to the King, whereas the King was satisfied that the decorum of the assembly was not violated! He even went to the length of building a masjid in Vijaynagar in order to please those Muslims. It is needless to say that these pampered Muslim soldiers did not fail to betray Devrai in the very thick of the battle, and Devrai was defeated at last by the Bahamani Sultan, Phiroz Khan, who faithful to the demonic Muslim tradition, asked for the daughter of Devrai at the signing of the treaty and the latter had to concede the demand most shamefully and helplessly! Fortunately, during those two or three hundred years of Muslim ascendancy, hardly five or six kings followed this tradition of abject surrender of the Rajputs. Of course, it must be remembered that no Hindu conqueror even laid down this condition for the vanquished Muslims in the great victories that the Hindus gained in those days over the Muslims! The reason is plain enough! For, whoever thought of marrying Muslim girl, would himself have been converted to Islam! The evil effects of this perverted virtue of the Hindus have been dealt with in the chapters on the ban on reconversion (Paragraphs: 413 to 473). Retaliation by the Hindus 882. However, after the death of Devrai, the kings of Vijaynagar began to avenge this ignoble defeat on various battlefields and once again, the Muslim powers were overawed. Especially in A.D. 1417, when Phiroz Khan invaded Telengan, the Hindus routed the Muslim forces killing their very Vazir.