cotton-plains, perhaps near Kavutal ("Kowtall" on the Ordnance Map).

Here is Firishtah's account:[50] --

"Roy Kishen Roy (I.E. Bukka), on receiving the intelligence (that
Muhammad had crossed), called together all the first nobles of his
court, and consulted on the best mode of opposing the mussulmauns. It
was agreed that Hoje Mul,[51] a maternal relation to the roy and
commander of his armies, should have the conduct of the war. Hoje Mul,
vain to excess, on receiving his command, asked the roy if he should
bring the prince of the mussulmauns alive a prisoner into his presence,
or present him only his head upon a spear. Kishen Roy replied, that
a living enemy, in any situation, was not agreeable, therefore he
had better put him to death as soon as he should take him. Hoje Mul,
having received his dismission marched to oppose Mahummud Shaw with
forty thousand horse and five hundred thousand foot. He commanded
the Bramins to deliver every day to the troops discourses on the
meritoriousness of slaughtering the mahummedans, in order to excite
zeal for expelling them. He ordered them to describe the butchery of
cows,[52] the insults to sacred images, and destroying of temples,
practised by the true believers.

"Mahummud Shaw, when the enemy arrived within fifteen coss[53] of his
camp, commanded his general, Khan Mahummud, to muster the troops, who
were found to be fifteen thousand horse and fifty thousand foot. Ten
thousand horse and thirty thousand foot, with all the artillery,
he advanced under Khan Mahummud Khan.

"On the 14th of Zeekaud (A.H. 767, or Thursday, July 23, A.D. 1366),
the armies of light and darkness met. From the dawn till four