the Sultan had gained any very material advantage in the campaign,
since the true boundary was always a subject of dispute. I obtain
the date above given from Firishtah's sentence: "In a few months
after the conclusion of this campaign, and the beginning of the year
802, the sultan marched to punish Nersing," a chief who had raised
disturbances on the borders of Berar.

The BURHAN-I MAASIR passes over this war with great brevity. It states
that the Sultan began it, and that at its close he accepted a large
indemnity and promise of payment of annual tribute. The date given
is identical.

Not long after this war, but certainly not before October 15,
A.D. 1399, Harihara II, died, and was succeeded by Bukka, his son.

We have little to guide us as to the events of Bukka's reign, but
Firishtah states that he ceased to pay tribute to Firuz Shah, partly
owing to instigation from Gujarat, Malwa, and Khandeish. In Hijra 808
(June 1405 to June 1406 A.D.) four years' tribute was owing, but the
Sultan took no notice, and waited for a more convenient time.

Bukka was followed on the throne of Vijayanagar by his brother Deva
Raya I., the date of whose coronation is fixed by an inscription
at Hasan in Mysore as November 5, 1406.[90] The last inscription of
Bukka Raya at present known bears a date corresponding to April 30th
in that year -- in Hindu reckoning the 12th day of the first half of
the month Vaisakha, in the (expired) Saka year 1328, the name of the
cyclic year being "Vyaya."[91]