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 beyond forgiveness, fled with a small following of horsemen into Gondwana, where he perished. Another of the old amirs of Ala-ud-din was slain by the Hindus and flayed, his skin being sentto the prince at Deogir. Other fugitives were seized by the Hindus and were by them bound and sent to the prince, who sent them on to his father at Delhi. These wretches, with their wives and families, were brought forth in the presence of multitudes and executed in oriental fashion by being impaled alive or by being trampled or dragged to death by elephants, so that as the historian says, "Such fear and terror were implanted in the bosoms of the spectators that the whole city fell a-trembling."

Muhammad remained in Deogir, having no intention of presenting himself before his father re infecta, and four months later he received reinforcements from Delhi, and written instructions from the emperor to march at once on Warangal. Nothing daunted by his previous failure, which had been due rather to treachery and lack of self-confidence than to actual mismanagement, he set forth, and captured Bidar on his way. On reaching Warangal he resolutely besieged the place and in a very short time succeeded in taking both the outer and the inner forts by storm. Prataparudradeva, his wives and children, and all his principal nobles were made captives, and were sent to Delhi together with much treasure. Warangal was then formally annexed to the empire and was renamed Sultanpur.

This second expedition of Muhammad bin Tughlaq to Warangal, which according to most accounts was undertaken in 1321, is placed by Badaoni in 1323 Prataparudradeva II, as we have seen, returned to Warangal from Delhi and reigned as a vassal until his death in 1325. His son Virabhadra, or Krishna, retired to Kondavir and, so far as is generally known, ended his days there in peace; but when the Deccan was in rebellion against Muhammad bin Tughlaq in 1334-35, the Hindus of Telingana seized the opportunity of shaking off" the Muslim yoke and rebelled under the leadership of Kanya or Kanhayya Naik, who may be conjecturally identified with Krishna the Kakatiya Kanhayya recaptured Warangal and a relative of his who, as has been mentioned, had accepted Islam and held Kampula for the emperor of Delhi, recanted and proclaimed himself independent.