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243 Sulţāns of Delhi despatched against Tiling. According to Barani, Sulţăn 'Ala-ad-din Khalji planned an invasion of Tiling as early as 1301 A. D. Four or five months after the Sultan left Rantambhor', says he, Ulugh Khan collected a large force with the intention of attacking Tiling and Ma'abar, bat his time was come, and the angel of destiny took him to the blessed city. His corpse was conveyed to Delhi and buried in his own house'. The expedition to Tiling did not obviously proceed. The idea was not, however, abandoned. Some two years later, at the time when the Sultan was engaged in the siege of Chitor, Malik Fakhr-ud-din Jūna, dadbak-i-Ilazarat and Malik Jhāju of Karra, nephew of Nostat Khān, had been sent with all the forces of Hindustan against Arangal'. On their arrival there the rainy season began and proved such a hindrance that the army could do nothing and in the beginning of the winter returned, greatly reduced in numbers, to Hindustan. The expedition thus ended in disaster. Although the Muslim historians attribute the failure to the outbreak of rains, it is not unlikely that they came into condict with the Tilingas and were worsted by them in the fight.
The failure of the expedition rankled in the mind of Alā-ud-din ; and in 1309-10 A. D., he despatched another expedition under the famous Malik Nalib Käfür and Khwaja Haji, the 'āriz-iMamālik. This expedition, according to the unanimous testimony of Muslim historians, was a resounding success of Muslim arms. The details of it are far too well known to need description. The Muslim armies marched to Warangal by way of Dovagiri without meeting serious opposition on the way ; defeated the Kākatiya forces, laid siege to and captured the outside mud fort, and invested the inner stone fort. Pratāparudra sued for peace. Malik Nā'ib Kāfür agreed to accede to his request on condition that he surrendered all his wealth, together with his elephants and horses, jewels and valuables and promised to send every year a certain amount of treasure and a certain number of elephants by way of tribute to Delhi. Pratäparudra who had no alternative accepted the conditions and Malik Na'ib Käfür raised the siege, and marched away to Delhi laden with booty.:
Of the next invasion, which was sent from Dēvagiri in 1318 A. D. by Sulţăn Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shāh, two conflicting accounts have come down to us. The cause of the expedition was the failure of Pratāparudra to pay the annual tribute for some years. To collect the arrears of this tribute, the Sultan sent Khusru Khān at the head of an army to Tiling. According to Amirkhusru, Pratāparudra offered resistance, but was defeated and had to purchase peace at a very heavy price. Amir Khusru's account of Khusru Khan's expedition to Tiling reads like another version of Nalik Nā'ib Kāfür's invasion in 1310 A.D. The encounter with Prataparudra forces, their lefeat, the investment and capture of the mud fert, the attack on the stone fort, and Prataparudra's surrender of all his wealth besides elephants and horses, follow the same pattern." "Işāiny, who also describes Khusru Khān's expedition to Tiling, narrates the events differently: he does not refer to hostilities. Pratāparudra, on the contrary, is said to have receivedl Khusu kilan with respect, paid the tribute due to the Sultan readily and sent him back to Dēvayiri well satisfied." Which of these two accounts is true is not easy to decide.
Elliot, History of India, Vol. III, p. 179.
• Ibid., p. 189, Nizam-ud-din Ahmad makes a casual reference to this expedition. The flower of the Sul. tan's army had, however, marched to the extreme south of the Dakin, to conquer Arangal' (Tubagat.i.1kbart, Eng. trans, Vol. I, p. 173). Tori hta also states that hwing to the absence of his army, which went on an expedition to Waranagal, 'Alā-ud-din was in no condition to face the Mughal invader Targhi on equal terms (Briggs, Ferishta, Vol. I., p. 354).
* Ibid., p. 202-03.
"A few variations, no doubt, occur. Pratāparudra is said to bave ceded five districts of his kingdom to tbe Sultan; these were, however, given back excepting the fort of Badrkot (Elliot, Flixtory of India, Vol. III, PP 559-61).
Futüh-us-Salatin (Madrus cdn.), PP. 361-63.
