The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c22.s1.4
The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c22.s1.4
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c22.s1.4
But this was probably not the first time that the Muhammadans had laid sacrilegious hands upon this shrine, for the first time that they appeared before the gates of Bankāpur was when Firoz Shāh Bahmani besieged and took the fort in A.D. 1406. It was then considered the most important fortress in the Karnātak. It was even yet again at the mercy of Islām when Haidar ‘Ali took it from the Marāṭhās in 1797.