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.