Parthal
Parthal, later named Nahal, fl.1405-68, Bahmani princess. Daughter of a Brahman goldsmith of Mudkal, in Raichur doab, on the outskirts of the Vijayanagar empire, she rejected the proposal of the ruler of Vijayanagar, Deva Raya (d. 1422) to marry him (1405) and returned all his gifts. This incensed Deva Raya who invaded the Raichur doab but Parthal fled with her father to the sanctuary of the Bahmani kingdom then ruled by Firuz. In the war, which followed between the two rulers, Deva Raya was defeated and compelled to give his own daughter to the Sultan. After the end of the hostilities (1406) Parthal was married to the Sultan’s eldest son and heir, Hasan Khan, and given the Persian name Nahal Ca sapling’) and her father was endowed with grant of land in Mudkal. Sultan later (1422) surrendered the throne to his brother, Ahmad, who became the new ruler, and her husband was also blinded by the son of new sultan.
