The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.186

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For some years after this, the Yâdavas of Dêvagiri remained unmolested. But, Râmachandra having become irregular in the payment of his tribute, in A. D. 1306 Allâ-ud-dîn placed an army of a hundred thousand horse under the command of one of his eunuchs, Malik Kâfur, and sent him to subdue the Dekkan. The expedition was reinforced on its way by the troops of Ain-ul-Mulk Multâni, the governor of Mâlwa, and of Alaf Khân, the governor of Gujarât; and one of the principal objects of it was to recover Dêvaladêvî, the daughter of Kauladêvî, who, on the defeat and flight of her husband, Karṇarâya of Gujarât,¹ in A. D. 1297, had been taken into the harem of Allâ-ud-dîn and had become a favourite with him. Karṇarâya, taking Dêvaladêvî with him, had fled to Bâglân, one of the districts dependent on Gujarât and bordering on the Dêvagiri dominions.² He refused the demand of Malik Kâfur that she should be given up; and eventually, listening to overtures from Dêvagiri, he promised her, then in her thirteenth year, in marriage to Saṁkara. Shortly after this, however, Karṇarâya was attacked by a division of the army under Alaf Khân, and, being totally defeated, fled to Dêvagiri. Bhîmadêva, the brother of Saṁkara, who had conducted the negociations for the marriage, and with only a small retinue was conveying Dêvaladêvî to Dêvagiri, was intercepted by a small body of Alaf Khân's troops. And, in the skirmish that ensued, Dêvaladêvî was captured and taken to Alaf Khân's camp. Alaf Khân straightway returned with her to Delhi; and she was soon after married to Allâ-ud-dîn's eldest son, Khizr Khân.