DOIYLATABAD, in lat. 19° 57' N., long. 75° 14' E., in the Dekhan, 9 mites N.W. of Aurang abad. Mean height of the village, 1721 feet. Its fortress, which was first known as Deogliur or Deogiri, consists of a conical greenstone rock, the base of which is scarped to a height of 120 feet front the ground. The upper conical part is reached by means of an opening at the base of the scarp, which gives admission into a low narrow passage, hewn out of the solid stone, and opening into a large chamber or vault that has been excavated in the interior of the hill. From this vault a vamp or gallery, gradually sloping upwards, and also excavated in the solid rock, winds round the interior. It has a height and breadth of 12 feet, and terminates above in a recess on the top of the rock about 20 feet square. At the base of the rock is a ditch, which is crossed only at one place, and by a causeway on which only two men abreast can walk, and defended on the side next the rock by a battlemented building. Outside the ditch is a minaret 100 feet high. Its position is commanding, and it has from the most ancient times been a stronghold of the rulers in that part of India. It was the capital of Ram Deo, a prince of s.o great power that the Mahome dans looked on hint as king of the Dekhan. Ala ud-Din, nephew and general of the emperor Firoz, in 1294 swept across the Nerbadda with an army of 8000 men, and presented himself before Deoghur, which he captured. He entered into negotiations with the raja, and, besides money and jewels, obtained the cession of Ellichpur and its depend encies, and the raja was further to pay tribute annually. On his return, he was met by his uncle Firoz, whom be assassinated, as he was being patted by him on the cheek. Kamala Devi was the wife
of the raja of Gujerat, and was celebrated as the flower of India. On the fall of Nerwalla, the capital of Gujerat, her husband became a fugitive, and ICarnala Devi was taken prisoner and carried to Ala-ud-Din's haram, and, attracted by her beauty, wit, and accomplishments, he made her his queen. Her fascinations soothed that savage Pathan in his moodiest hours, and influenced him to a lenity hitherto unknown to him. IIer daughter, Dewala Devi, had escaped with her father. Her reputation for beauty equalled that of her mother, and the son of Ram-deo, the raja of Deooiri (Dowlatabad), had long sued for ber, but hert'father, proud of his Rajput origin, would not accept a Mabratta, even though a prince. Kamala Devi, however, having expressed to Ala ud-Din a wish to be joined by her daughter, Ala nd-Din sent a strong army, under a general, to bring Dewala Devi to Dehli. In this extremity her father accepted the Mahratta prince, and sent off his daughter to Deogiri under an escort, but the escort was overtaken, the fair maiden seized and carried to Dehli, when Khizr Khan, the son of Ala-tid-Din, married her. Their union was very happy, and the poet Khusru praised them. In five years from the death of Ala-ud-Din, the throne of Dehli was filled by Kafur, a converted Hindu, who filled the capital with Hindu troops, pat out Khizr Khan's eyes, put to death all the survivors of Ala-ud-Din's family, and transferred Dewala Devi to his own zenana.-1Vilson; Briggs, The Nizanz.