dispirited. During this, Sultan Feroze Shaw was wounded by an arrow
in the hand, but he would not dismount; and drawing out the arrow,
bound up the wound with a cloth.

"The enemy were at last driven off by the valour and activity of Ahmed
Khan and Khankhanan, and the Sultan moved farther from the city to a
convenient plain, where he halted till his wounded men were recovered."

He halted here for four months, holding the Raya a prisoner in his
own capital, while bodies of troops harassed and wasted the country
south of Vijayanagar, and attacked the fortress of Bankapur. The
"convenient plain" was probably in the open and rich valley near
the town of Hospett, south of the city; for the Sultan could not
have ravaged the country to the south unless he had been master of
the whole of this valley for many miles. Bankapur was taken, and the
detached forces returned bringing with them 60,000 Hindu prisoners;
on which the Sultan left Khankhanan to hold Vijayanagar, while he
himself attempted to reduce the fortress of Adoni, "the strongest in
possession of the enemy."

Deva Raya then began to treat for peace, and was compelled to submit
to conditions to the last degree humiliating. He agreed to give the
Sultan his daughter in marriage, to indemnify him with an immense
treasure, and to cede for ever the fort of Bankapur.[96]

"Though the roies of Carnatic had never yet married their daughters
but to persons of their own cast, and giving them to strangers was
highly disgraceful, yet Dewul Roy, out of necessity, complied,
and preparations for celebrating the nuptials were made by both
parties. For forty days communication was open between the city and