The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.175

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and despoiled his capital.¹ The complete subjugation of the Hoysala kingdom, and the annexation of it to the empire of Delhi, were not effected till A. D. 1327, in the reign of Muhammad Tughlak.² Meanwhile, it would appear, after his defeat and capture in A. D. 1310, Vîra-Ballâḷa III. was liberated, and continued, for a short time longer, the semblance of a reign, at the original capital of Bêlûr, rather than at Dôrasamudra; and it seems that, after the events of A. D. 1327, when Dôrasamudra is said to have been entirely demolished by the Musalmâns, he retired to Toṇḍanûr,—the modern Toṇṇûr near Seringapatam,—which continued to be the seat of an enfeebled power for about fifty years more under him and some successor.³ The power of the Hoysalas as a dynasty, however, was practically extinguished in A. D. 1310.