The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.315

v3.c20.315

Malik Nāib, after passing Indūr, the frontier town between the kingdoms of Deogīr and Warangal, wasted the country with fire and sword, driving its inhabitants before him towards Warangal. The reigning king at this time was Pratāparudradeva II, the seventh known raja of the Kākatīya dynasty, who had succeeded to the throne when his grandmother Rudramma Devī, alarmed, in 1294, by the news of ‘Alā-ud-dīn’s descent on Deogīr, abdicated in his favour. The statement of the historian Budaunī, who says that the dynasty had reigned for 700 years before its final extinction in 1321, is corroborated by Hindu tradition, but so far as our knowledge at present extends the first of the line was Tribhuvanamalla Betmarāja, who reigned in the first half of the twelfth century.