The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.182

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In A. D. 1294, Allâ-ud-dîn, — the nephew, and subsequently the successor, of Jalâl-ud-dîn or Fîrûz Shâh, the first of the Khiljî emperors of Delhi, and then holding the post of governor of Karrah-Mânikpur on the Ganges, near Allahâbâd, — with the permission of the king, collected a body of eight thousand chosen horse, and set out to invade the Dekkan. Crossing the Narmadâ, which was then the northern boundary of the Dêvagiri kingdom, he proceeded by way of Ellichpur, and pressed on by forced marches till he arrived in the neighbourhood of Dêvagiri itself. Râmachandra, or Râmadêva, as he is called in the Musalmân chronicle, collected such forces as he could muster on the spur of the moment, and opposed the invaders at a distance of about four miles from his capital. But being defeated; he was forced to retire into the hill-fort above the