The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.776.3

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and Firishta tells us that when in 1306 A.D., according to the instructions of Malik Kāfūr, Alaf Khān tried to join him in ‘the borders of the Deccan’ from Gujarat ‘by the route leading through the mountains of Buglana, so as both to enter the Deccan together,’ he was successfully opposed by Karṇa. Immediately before this Malik Kāfūr had tried to persuade the Caulukya king to hand over to him Devaladevī, his daughter by Kāvalādevī. For we are told that at her request the Sulṭān had issued express injunctions to his generals to seize her daughter and send her to Delhi. But ‘The Rāja could by no means be brought to agree’ to this demand. Finding that his own military efforts had no effect on local rajas, he directed Alaf Khān to join him in Gujarat. But Firishta relates that for two months Karṇa defeated all his efforts to force a passage, fighting several actions. At this time Saṅkara the son of the Devagiri Yādava Rāmadeva made offers of help to Karṇa, who agreed to give him his daughter, who was only 13 years of age.