"After five days, the royal canopy moved from Birdhul on Thursday, the 17th of Zi-l Ka’da, and arrived at Kham, and five days afterwards they arrived at the city of Mathra (Madura), the dwelling place of the brother of the Rai Sundar Pandya. They found the city empty, for the Rai had fled with the Ranis, but had left two or three elephants in the temple of Jagnar (Jagganath). The elephants were captured and the temple burnt."
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Amir Khusrow.Khazainu’l-Futuh. Malik Kafur, general of Alauddin Khalji's army. About Sultan ‘Alau’d-Din Khalji (AD 1296-1316) and his generals conquests in Madura (Tamil Nadu) Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. III, p. 90-91
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Malik Kafur's invasion of the Pandya kingdom
During 1310–1311, the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji sent an army led by Malik Kafur to the southernmost kingdoms of India. After subjugating the Hoysalas, Malik Kafur invaded the Pandya kingdom (called Ma'bar in Muslim chronicles) in present-day Tamil Nadu, taking advantage of a war of succession between the Pandya brothers Vira and Sundara. During March–April 1311, he raided several places in the Pandya territory, including their capital Madurai. He was unable to make the Pandya king a
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