The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.197

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Up to A. D. 1338, Dêvagiri seems to have not been looked upon as a place of much importance, though it was the scene of many of the contests that ensued between the Musalmâns and the Marâṭhâs during the completion of the subjugation of the Dekkan. But, in that year, Muhammad Tughlak, who had ascended the throne of Delhi in A. D. 1325, visited Dêvagiri on one of his campaigns, and was so much pleased with the situation and strength of the place, and considered it to be in so much more central a position