Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India Bijapur Inscriptions

Cousens' work which originally formed part of the Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey in Bijapur during the months of February and March 1889 was published in the form of a Selection from the Records of the Government of Bombay in 1890. [...] Yasuf the founder of the 'Adil Shall dynasty was reputed to be a son of Sultan Murad II of Turkey on whose death in 854 (1450) he escaped the general slaughter of all the scions of the royal family which followed the accession of Sultan Muhammad II to the throne. [...] Shortly after his return to Bijapur he died of dropsy in the beginning of 916 (1510) in the 75th year of his age and was buried near the tomb of Shaikh Wanda at Gog-i a village in the dominion of H. E. H. the Ni4am of Haidarabad. [...] `Ali the eldest son of Ibrahim who was a prisoner in the fort at Miraj at the time of the death of his father was released and raised to the throne by the consent of all the noblemen. [...] About this time Aurangzeb sent urgent orders to Khan-i-Khanan governor of the Deccan to expedite the conquest of Bijapur but flawass Khan induced him to enter into a treaty of peace by the terms of which Bads_bah Bibi a sister of the king was given in marriage to one of Aurangzeb's sons and the payment of the annual peace offering was suspended on condition that Bijapur undetook to fight a