The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.191

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In A. D. 1310, Allâ-ud-dîn, as has been mentioned in the preceding chapter, sent Malik Kâfur and Khwâjâ Hâjî, with a large army, to reduce the Hoysalas of Dôrasamudra. Having reached Dêvagiri, they found that Râmachandra was dead, and that Saṃkara was not well affected to the Musalmâns. Leaving a part of his army at Paithan on the Gôdâvarî, to overawe Saṃkara and hold him in check, Malik Kâfur continued his march to the south, and, having effected the conquest of Dôrasamudra, where the reigning king was Ballâḷa III., returned to Delhi in A. D. 1311, apparently without having found any cause, for the time being, for active operations against Saṃkara. But Saṃkara subsequently withheld his tribute. Accordingly, in A. D. 1312, Malik Kâfur for the fourth time proceeded into the Dekkan, and seized Saṃkara and put him to death. He then laid waste Mahârâshṭra and the Karṇâṭaka, from Chaul¹ and Dâbhôḷ² on the coast, as far as Mudgal³ and Raichûr,⁴ and took up his residence at Dêvagiri, from which place he realised the tribute from the princes of Têliṅgâna and the Karṇâṭaka, and remitted it to Delhi.