CHAP. III.] MUGHALS RAVAGE BIJAPUR. 37
his suzerain, while he stood by in loyal approval ! jj (April, 1636.)-
The king of Bijapur had not fallen so low as
_,, that. He made a stand for the
Bijapur ravaged.
power and dignity of his an- cestors. But the three Mughal armies at once entered his kingdom from three points, Bidar in the N. E., Sholapur in the W. and Indapur in the S. W. With a ruthlessness surpassing that of the French who desolated the Palatinate, the Mughal invaders everywhere destroyed all traces of cultivation, burnt down the houses, drove off the cattle, butchered the villagers, or dragged them away to be sold as slaves. With a refine- ment of cruelty they forced their prisoners to carry their own property for the benefit of the captors ! Flourishing villages were ruined for ever, and the population thinned."!" But like the Dutch of a generation later, the
- Abd. Ham. I. B. 145.
t Khan-i-Dauran slew 2000 men at the village of Kalian (Abdul Hamid, I. B. 151). And so also at other places. Khan-i-Zaman in the Kolhapur district sold 2000 prisoners of war, male and female, into slavery (Abd. Ham. I. B. ^63). The operations of Khan-i-Dauran's division are described in Abd. Ham. I. B. 151— 154, Syed Khan-i- Jahan's in 155 — 160, Khan-i-Zaman's in 160—165. The whole in Khafi Khan, i. 520 — 521, 525 — 530.
