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oned by weight.) These tribes uniting in greater force, at last under a 

 And ultimately es- descendant of the great Timur established them- 

 SSS^ta^Ui? ' selves on this side of the Indus, and in the govern- 

 A. D. 1498. mentof Delhi in 1 498 under the celebrated Baber, the 

 founder of the Mogul dynasty in India. This happened precisely three 

 years after Vasco De Garna's arrival in India ; the Moguls then appearing 

 on the North, while the Europeans first arrived by sea in the South. 



53. The progress of the Mogul conquests to the South thencefor- 

 Wno extend their ward, though slow, was unremitted,* till at last 



Akbar having subdued the Patans, from that time 

 the Emperors of Delhi turned their views entirely to the South, and at 

 a. D. 1364. tne period we are now come to, after taking Doulatabad in 

 1634, and reducing the whole country to the Godavery into the form 

 of a province, the capital of their Southern conquests was established 

 under the province Allum Ghur, at a favorable situation not far from 

 a. D. 1654. th e ancient Hindoo capital of Deogheer, near the village 

 of Kurkee, where the seat of government was now established by the 

 name of Aurungabad.j 



54. The encroaching power of the Moguls from this time forward 

 And establish a vice- considerably weakened the Southern confederacy, 



when/ Aurunizebe an d now under an ambitious and enterprizing 

 C uest^f P t\iewhoi e e C Pe*- voun g prince, seriously threatened their existence 

 ninsula. as independent states ; of the secret views in con- 



* In this interval it was that several Mahomedan Missionaries, some of them women, 

 from motives of zeal for propagating Islamism, and agreeable to that fanatic spirit that 

 animated the first followers of Mahomed, came into the Deckan or South of India, 

 forming establishments, and planted the seeds of the faith in the heart of the countries 

 still retained by the infidels, as they denominated the Hindoos. The Durgahs of the 

 Owliah at Kurkee, now Aurungabad, and several along the Western Ghauts of 

 Deckan and of Seraje-ud-deen at Culburga, and further South; the Durgahs at Pen- 

 naconda near Colar, Secander Mulla perhaps that of Trichinoply, and in different other 

 places were established previous to the Mogul invasion of the Deckan, and equally 

 proving the unremitting zeal of the Moslem Missionaries, as of the inoffensive, unre- 

 sisting spirit of the Hindoos, who under their own independent Pricees, admitted these 

 fanatic usurpers in some places even to occupy their own temples of religion. Curious 

 anecdotes of this spirit appear in the Kerala Ulpati, or History of the Establishment 

 of Malliallum, in the History of Poona, and in the Memoir of Pennaconda. 



f The walls of the city or sharpenna, were, however, only completed in A. D. 1683, 

 on the Emperor's return to Deckan the second time. See Hakeekul, Part III, under 

 that vear. * 



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