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Ratipala was thus gained over by 'Alâu'ddin. Therefore, when he saw the king, he did not give him a true account of what he had seen in the Muhammadan Camp, and of what 'Alâu'd-dîn had said to him. Instead of representing ’Alau'd-din' power as fairly broken by the repeated and vigorous attacks of the Rājputs, and he himself as willing to retire upon a nominal surrender of the fort, he represented him as not only bent upon exacting the most humilialing marks of submission on the part of the king, but as having it in his power to make good his threats. 'Alau'd-dîn confessed, said Ratipala, that the Râjputs had succeeded in killing some of his soldiers; but that mattered little, 'for no one could look upon the contipede as lamo for the loss of a foot or two, Under these circumstances he advised Hammira to call upon Ranamalla in person that night, and persuade him to do his best in repolling the assailants; for Ranamulla, said the traitor Ratipala, was an uncommon warrior, but that he did not, it appeared, use his utmost endeavours in chastising the enemy as he was offended with the king for something or other. The king's visil, alleged Ratipala, would make matters all right again.
After this interview with the king, Ratipala bastoned to see Ranamalla and there, as if to oblige and save from utter destruction an old comrade and associate, informed him that, for some unknown reason, the king's mind was greatly prejudiced against him, and he advised him to go over to the enemy on the first alarm; for he said Hammira had resolved to make him a prisoner that very night. He also told him the hour at which he might expect to be visited by the king for this purpose, 'Having done this, Ratipala quietly waited to see the issue of the mischief ho had so industriously sown,
the doer of his wife's room is a sign well understood by a husband in this tribe, at sight of which he immediately takes care to retire from the house, See Tod, vol, I, p. 50, -
