The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.172

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Narasimha III. was succeeded by his son Ballala or Vira-Ballala III. Of this reign, we have some eleven or twelve records; similarly, all from Mysore. The earliest of them is an inscription at Hemmaragal,⁴ which furnishes for him a date in the month Phalguna (Feb.-March), falling in A. D. 1292, of the Khara samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 1213 (expired). And the latest unquestionable one is an inscription at Tigadahalli,⁵ which is dated in the month Margasira (Nov.-Dec.), falling in A. D. 1137, of the Isvara samvatsara, S.-S. 1260 (expired). The records give him all the customary paramount epithets and titles, and style him Pratapa-Chakravartin; and they mention Dorasamudra as his capital in A. D. 1310, 1316, and 1336. But it seems unlikely that he exercised much sovereign power after A. D. 1310. As will be seen in the next chapter, Alla-ud-din, the second of the Khilji emperors of Delhi, had then already invaded the Dekkan, and had commenced and almost completed the conquest of the Yadavas of Devagiri. As yet, the Hoysalas had remained free from attack. But, in A. D. 1310, Alla-ud-din sent an army, under Malik Kafur and Khwaja Haji, to reduce Dorasamudra. Leaving part of their forces at Paithan on the Godavari, Malik Kafur and Khwaja Haji continued their march to the south,— entered and laid waste the Hoysala kingdom,— engaged, defeated, and captured Vira-Ballala III.,— and took