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It is a Jong mathnavi in elegant Persian and relates the story of the , loves of Khidr Khan ( the eldest son of Sultan 'Alauddin Khilji (1296-1316 of Delhi) and Deval Rani, daughter of Raja Karan Deva Baghela of Gujerat.
I. Amir Khusrau says that 'Alauddin wrote to Karan asking for Deval Rani's · hand for his son Khidr Khan and the Raja, preferring this to an alliance with the Yadava prince, prepared to send her to Delhi.
that fell into the hands of the Khilji Army, the grammatical construction of the sentence is so palpably wrong that one cannot resist the conclusion that the name 'Kamla Devi' must have been added by a copyist+ And finally, Badauni, Firishta and' 'Ali Muhammad Khan (the author of Mir'·at-i-Ahmadi) were later writers and only uncritically copied the story from Amir Khusrau, who was a poet and no historian and had no other motive except that of creating a heroine for his epic.
Amir Khusrau says that Rai Karan was preparing to send Deval Rani with a handsome dowry to Delhi in response to ~Alauddin's demand, but as the Sultan changed his mind and in 1306 despatched an army under Ulugh Khan to invade Gujerat a second time and obtained possession of the whole of that kingdom," the Raja had to flee to Devagiri along with his daughter · whom he now agreed to give in marriage to Shankar Deva.