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

their houses and property. The Muslim masjids were destroyed in the very
same way as the Hindu temples had been demolished. On the battlefields,
the Hindus simply routed the Muslim forces.
903. This fierce retaliation by the Hindus to the Muslim fanaticism and
devilish treatment of the non-Muslims, which had gathered momentum
during the last forty years or so, struck terror in the hearts of the Muslims,
and they, in their turn, formed a new fear-complex about the Hindus. They
began to complain most piteously that the Hindus perpetrated insults and
atrocities on them and even exposed their religion to ridicule and shame.
The Destruction of Vijaynagar
904. All the five Muslim States in the Deccan and the Muslim society in
general took a great fright at the defeat of Nizamshahi at the hands of
Ramrai, and especially, the fierce reprisals that the Hindus had newly
begun, and were excited with extreme fear and anger. They came to realize
that if they wanted their kingdoms to last and if at all they wished to live as
Muslims, it was absolutely necessary for them to forget their mutual
grievances, and launch a united and determined attack against the proud
kings of Vijaynagar. For, they knew that none of them by itself was a match
for the Vijaynagar Empire. So, Adilshah of Vijapur and his Vazir
Kishwarkhan decided to take the lead in this daring project. Kishwarkhan
personally went and interviewed the Nizamshah and Kut-b-Shah at their
respective capitals, while all prominent Muslim Sardars and Manasabdars,
and army chiefs and Mullah-maulvis preached jihad (crusade) everywhere.
In order to cement their mutual trust and newly-formed friendship, these
Muslim Sultans intermarried their daughters and formed family-ties, and,
thus, after a thorough preparation the joint forces of all Muslim States
marched on Vijaynagar.
905. Ramrai himself was not quite idle. Every now and then, he got
details about this secret plot of the Muslim States. He was, in fact, an old
man of seventy at that time, but his passion to fight with the Muslims had
not grown a bit less in intensity than what it was in his youth. Undaunted,
he, too, equipped his army in every respect and made ready to meet the
Muslim attack. He posted two big divisions of his forces under the
command of his two brothers—Tirumalrai and Vyankatadri—on two sides
of the city, and he himself took the centre.
906. The Hindu-Muslim armies met for a savage struggle at
Rakshasbhuvan (Rakkasgi-Tangadgi) near Talikot on Friday, the 2nd of