The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.77

v3.c29.s2.77

The fate of Karan and his family has been related elsewhere. His wife was captured and became the wife or concubine of the Muslim king of Delhi. Karan himself fled, with his beautiful daughter Deval Devī, and took refuge with Rāmchandra of Deogīr, well content now that his daughter should wed his host’s son, to whom, in his pride, he had formerly refused her; but the prince of Deogīr never possessed his bride, who was captured by the Muslim officer Alp Khān near Ellora¹, and carried to Delhi, where she became the wife first of Khizr Khān, ‘Alā-ud-dīn’s eldest son, who was afterwards murdered by order of his brother, Qutb-ud-dīn Mubārak, into whose possession she passed, and at last she suffered the degradation of the embraces of the foul outcaste, Khusrav Khān, who murdered his master and usurped his throne. Karan established himself for a time in the Nandurbār district, on the borders of the small state of Baglāna, or Bāglān, but his line died with him.