DAULATABAD, dou'la-ta-bihr (Ar., city of prosperity; Hind. Deoyiri, tkt. DCrogiri, moun tain of the gods, from the cliff which commands the town). A strongly fortified town of India, within the Nizam's dominions, near their north western frontier, in latitude I9° 57' N., and longitude 75° 18' E. The town is noted for its commanding rock-fortress, which. with a height of about 500 feet, is scarped into a perpendicular for the lowest third of its altitude. This strong hold is all the more formidable from its being completely isolated, being 3000 yards distant, from any other eminence. The has greatly decayed, and has a population of less than one thousand. The famous cave temples of Eldora, are within seven miles of Daulatabad.
DAUMER, (1011'111er, GEORG FRIEDRICH ( 1800 75). A German poet and philosophical writer, known also by his pen-name, Ensehins Emmeran. Ile was born at Nuremberg, studied at the Uni versities of Erlangen and Leipzig. and, from
1822 to 1830, was a professor in the Nuremberg Gymnasium. Be solemnly urged that human sacrifice had attended Hebraic and even prinii tive Christian rites, and passed in a few years from violent rationalism to ultra-Romanism. iris writings, which mirror his peculiarities, include Die Urgeschiehte des ilenschengeistes (18•7); Die acheinwisse des ehristli•hen illertuins (2 vols.., 1847) ; Aphorismen iibcr Toil viol Unsterb lichkcit (1865) ; and Das Wunder (1874). For somewhat more than a year he Was guardian and instructor of the famous foundling Waspar llauser (q.v.), in regard to whom he published Hit theilungen iibcr Kaspar Hauser (1532) ; 1:0//: Whinge/1 iibcr Kaspar Hauser ( 1859) ; and Kuspu• Hauser, sein 1Vesen, seine Uns•huld (1873).