Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c5.6

c5.6

The Yādavas were, at this time, confined to the northern part of the Dakhan, and had also transferred their allegiance from the Rāshṭrakūṭas to the Western Chālukyas. When they first came south under Driḍhaprahāra they are said to have established themselves at Chandrādityapura, the modern Chāndor in the Nāsik district, where he ruled over Seunadeśa, the present Khāndesh, the family intermarrying with the Silāhāras of the Northern Konkan. Their capital seems to have been afterwards moved to Sindinagara (Sinnar), further south, which was founded by Seunachandra I. under the name of Seunapura, about the middle of the 11th century. Some forty years later we hear of Bhillama III. making the impregnable fortress of Devagiri his capital, which continued to be the headquarters of the family until its capture by the Muhamadans in A.D. 1312, when its name was changed to Daulatābād.