https://www.hinduhistory.info/venkatapati-deva-raya-the-great-savior-of-southern-india/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:21:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 https://www.hinduhistory.info/venkatapati-deva-raya-the-great-savior-of-southern-india/#comment-35207 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:21:31 +0000 http://www.hinduhistory.info/?p=2291#comment-35207 Excellent article. providing sources would have been better. going by the article it seems reasonable to say that venkatapatiraya was a greater defender of hindu society than krishnadevaraya. moreover the latter had great advantage in having the great appaji or timma-arasu as his prime minister. comparing venkatapati and rana pratap is illuminating.this kind of articles are necessary to gain proper perspective on our history. one more highlight of the article is to point out about the yearly jihad of the sultans. this reminds one of the yearly jihads of mahmud of ghazni. this practice has its basis in the sunnah of their prophet who waged ghazwas regularly on non-muslim tribes of arabia. as is the rule in their religion, it is the divine duty of the followers of the prophet to emulate him. this should come as a lesson to hindus and put them on warning. some historic sources point out that the bahamani sultans made it a practice to kill one lakh hindus per year all through their rule. thanks again for the article. prasad.

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