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MADHURAVIJAYAM
ties stood side by side in mutual fear and suspicion.
But the choice of Qurbat, though based on high politi-
cal and ambitious considerations, was not at all a satis-
factory choice. And this was the Vijayanagara ruler's
golden opportunity.
Qurbat did not get on well with his own people.
He had displeased them by foolish and vulgar acts.
When he helid court in the hall of audience "he would
put on his hands and feet and neck all the ornaments
of women; he would engage himself.... in base
actions. In short when Qurbat Hassan Kangu com-
menced to do such things in the city of Ma'bar
the people of Ma'bar were indefinitely distressed
on account of him and were disgusted with him and his
activities."32
The opportunity was made use of by Kampaņa
who marched against Madhurai sometime before 1371.
Kampaņa had a vast force which included a good num-
ber of well-trained war elephants.3³3 This fact re-
ceives confirmation both from the Muslim and Hindu
sources. The battle between the Hindu and Muslim
forces was a tough one and was for a time undecisive.
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32. Dr. N. Venkataramanayya's Translation, p. 63 of Ma'bar. Elliot
and Dowson have translated the passage in Shams-Siraj Afif's Tarikh-i-
Firoz Shahi thus: "When this Kurbat held his court he appeared
decked in hand and foot with female ornaments and made himself
notorious for his puerile actions." (Page 339 of Vol. III). But Mr. S. H.
Hodivala in his Indo-Muslim History, (pp. 326-327) says: "What Shams
really charges him with is something much more culpable and flagitious
than puerility. It is pederasty or homo-sexual vice."
33. Canto VIII.
34. Cf. Shams-Siraj Afif: Tarikh-i-Firoz-Shahi: (Elliot and Dow-
son, Vol. III, p. 339). A neighbouring chief named Bukkan at the
head of a body of men and elephants marched into Ma'bar. Cf. Madhu-
rāvijayam, Canto VIII. According to this work the Muslims also
employed a large number of elephants.
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MADHURAVIJAYAM
ties stood side by side in mutual fear and suspicion.
But the choice of Qurbat, though based on high politi-
cal and ambitious considerations, was not at all a satis-
factory choice. And this was the Vijayanagara ruler's
golden opportunity.
Qurbat did not get on well with his own people.
He had displeased them by foolish and vulgar acts.
When he helid court in the hall of audience "he would
put on his hands and feet and neck all the ornaments
of women; he would engage himself.... in base
actions. In short when Qurbat Hassan Kangu com-
menced to do such things in the city of Ma'bar
the people of Ma'bar were indefinitely distressed
on account of him and were disgusted with him and his
activities."32
The opportunity was made use of by Kampaņa
who marched against Madhurai sometime before 1371.
Kampaņa had a vast force which included a good num-
ber of well-trained war elephants.3³3 This fact re-
ceives confirmation both from the Muslim and Hindu
sources. The battle between the Hindu and Muslim
forces was a tough one and was for a time undecisive.
34
32. Dr. N. Venkataramanayya's Translation, p. 63 of Ma'bar. Elliot
and Dowson have translated the passage in Shams-Siraj Afif's Tarikh-i-
Firoz Shahi thus: "When this Kurbat held his court he appeared
decked in hand and foot with female ornaments and made himself
notorious for his puerile actions." (Page 339 of Vol. III). But Mr. S. H.
Hodivala in his Indo-Muslim History, (pp. 326-327) says: "What Shams
really charges him with is something much more culpable and flagitious
than puerility. It is pederasty or homo-sexual vice."
33. Canto VIII.
34. Cf. Shams-Siraj Afif: Tarikh-i-Firoz-Shahi: (Elliot and Dow-
son, Vol. III, p. 339). A neighbouring chief named Bukkan at the
head of a body of men and elephants marched into Ma'bar. Cf. Madhu-
rāvijayam, Canto VIII. According to this work the Muslims also
employed a large number of elephants.
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