The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c15.4

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II. The Independent Sovereigns—Kākati Rudradēva, his victories over the neighbouring princes; Rudradēva's war with Bhima of the Telugu Choḷa family; subjugation of the Kōṭas and the Koṇḍapaḍumaṭis in the South, conflict with the Sēuṇas of Dēvagiri, suffered defeat and was killed in the battlefield; his ministers and officers. Mahādēva (A.D. 1195-98-99), a doughty warrior, invaded the Sēuṇa Kingdom and perished seated on the back of an elephant during the fight. Gaṇapatidēva (A.D. 1199-1261), and his captivity; invasions of Nāgati and the Chōḷa emperor, Kulōttuṅga III; Gaṇapati's subsequent reinstatement and his invasion of the coastal Āndhra districts against Prithvīśvara; after his victory over Prithvīśvara Gaṇapati sent an army to Kaliṅga to reduce it to subjection; the Eastern Gaṅga incursion, the conquest of Koḷanu, Gaṇapati's southern expedition, his relations with the Sēuṇas, his war with the Pāṇḍyas of Madura; Gaṇapati's inter-state relations, his family and vassals, generals and ministers. Rudramadēvī (A.D. 1259-95), rebellion of her half-brothers aided by certain nobles; they ousted her from the capital which she recaptured and put to death her half-brothers; Kākatiya authority re-established in the Godavari valley with the help of Nāyak commanders, war with the Pāṇḍyas who had usurped Kākatiya territory in the South, the Sēuṇa Mahādēva invaded the Kākatiya Kingdom but Rudrama fought valiantly and put the enemy to flight, Ambadēva, the Kāyastha chief, foreswore his allegiance to the Kākatiya queen, he entered into alliance with Sēuṇas and the Pāṇḍyas to cope effectively with the superior forces of the Kākatiyas, Rudramadēvī launched a three-pronged attack on Ambadēva and his allies, Rudramadēvī's vassals, ministers, and officials, her family. Pratāparudra (A.D. 1295-1323) recruited seventy-seven nāyaks to strengthen the defences of the kingdom, tested his new modelled army against some refractory Kāyastha chiefs whom he subdued, the Muslim, incursions into the Deccan, the earliest of 'Alā-ud-Dīn', expedition against Telin̄gāna in A.D. 1303, the Muslim generals Fakhr-ud-Dīn and Jhāju penetrated into the heart of the kingdom and reached near Warangal, they sustained a crushing defeat, the failure of the expedition did not affect 'Alā-ud-Dīn's designs of conquest and he dispatched a larger army under Malik Nā'ib who arrived near the Kākatiya capital on 24 January 1310, after a prolonged siege by the enemy Pratāparudra sued for peace and Malik Nā'ib agreed on the condition that Pratāparudra should hand over all his accumulated wealth and further pay annually a stipulated sum of money and send a contingent of trained elephants and horses to the Delhi Sultān as tribute, ‘Alā-ud-Din’s confidence in Pratāparudra as a faithful ally, asked the latter to help Malik Nā’ib in the conquest of South India, Pratāparudra co-operated with the Imperial troops, succession of new Sultāns in Delhi, Pratāparudra did not send the stipulated annual tribute to Delhi owing to weakness of the Imperial control over the Deccan, Ghiyās-ud-Din Tughluq sent his son Ulugh Khān with a large army, the latter besieged Warangal, the siege lasted for six months, conflicting accounts of the siege by Muslim historians, *Isāmī* comparatively more reliable, Pratāparudra surrendered finally, ordered by Ulugh Khān to be taken to Delhi with his family, died on the way, Pratāparudra’s family, his vassals, generals, and ministers.