45f ACCOUNT OF 



remaining dependencies,, .was reduced to the imna 



€iy ii 



■•'Ths 2cI, volume of Scot tV Hi (lory of 

 ;,53, and from p.,.g9 to qi, contains a^detailed accoii^f. 



Seca?jder AAdil Sp;aH, of the Operations of tl' .Jiperiai "v, 



agamft the kiogdorn of jS/^'(3;j6^r before the arrival t - 



the Dekkan^ and of the fie ge and conqueft of Brjapi: 

 :Mut the date of the conquefl,.-as reprefen ted ia that . 

 .^operations -in, the Dekkan, is incorreft; for, hj the infcriptia:i en 

 , immenie gun, .the -^^ Malic "i'Mai dan ^' 'the true -date u aicerfc: . 

 :.to be 1097 A. H, ^ori^S^ A. Dk which is alfo given in, the Loobos) 



Torjjareekh, as the year, in which Bijapur furrendered to the Imperial 

 , army. All the Perfian hiHorieSs which I have coafalted sn this fubje'd, 



.are iilent re fpe cling the fate, of Secan-dsr ; huX, from the. verbal 



accounts of the .bed informed perfons at Mljapur, it appears tha': 'he 

 ...was put tO;deat.h by AALUMGin, a few •months after he ferrendered 

 .vl»imfelf to , -that er^iperor. When .he -firfl waited \iu<in him, he^ earrie^d 



.upon his h?ad'the Afdr^USharif, bat ihele holy relics did 'fi-ot lave 

 ,;lii,m fro,m deiflruclion, Aqren.gz^b, havi>ng dircove-red, or having 



pretended to-difco?er,:that his royal captive was engaged io a confpi- 

 ,.i;acy with SevAjiV;p.iit .an end to his-exidence by having 'pbifon ad- 

 -miniflered to him in a rnelon, or as fom.e fay, by^having •Mm c'ro-flied 



to death betwee.n two boards. I heard at Bijapur, 2Ln anecdote of a 

 ./converfation which paSed -between Auremcze®, and bis daoghterj the 



BEGO:Mj,ivhore Fepnlclire lias been defcribed, v/hich is perhaps worth 

 ,-reiatiug. .--On the -fail of" the placeg the emperor w.-Ss boafting to -her 



of the.. fuccels with which Providence had crowned his arms in every 

 ^quarter, and of his baving-by the extin61ion of this fovereignty ac- 

 ..coroplifhed every ,.obJG^1 of his ambition, and fabdued and <fetkrcned 



