[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s17.198 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.198 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.198 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s17.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.198) than Delhi itself, that he decided upon making it the capital of his empire. He changed its name from Dêvagiri, “the mountain of the gods,” to Daulatâbâd, “the city of wealth,” which name, ruined as the place is, it still retains. But, though he three times compelled the population of Delhi to migrate to Daulatâbâd, his project of making it the capital of the empire failed in the end. Its natural advantages, however, must have led to its being continued as a military post. And Ibn Batûta, an Arabian traveller from Tangiers, who visited the place about A. D. 1342, describes it as consisting then of three parts,—Daulatâbâd, or the city in general; Kataka, or probably the fortified part of the city at the foot of the hill; and Dwaikir, \*i.e.\* Dêvagiri, or the towering hill itself, with the wonderful artificial scarp round the base of it.¹ - [Previous: c8.s17.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.197) - [Next: c8.s17.199](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.199) - [Up: c8.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.198) · Pramāṇa