"“While campaigning in Karnataka following the fall of Vijayanagar ‘Ali I’s armies destroyed two or three hundred Hindu temples, and the monarch himself was said to have smashed four or five thousand Hindu images…”"
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Sultãn ‘Alî I ‘Ãdilshãh of Bijapur (AD 1557-1580) Karnataka. Tazkirãtu’I-Mulûk. Richard Maxwell Eaton: Sufis of Bijapur 1300-1700, Princeton (U.S.A.), 1978, p. 68.
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