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Karnadeva fled; Patan was taken, Somnath plundered again and Gujarat brought under Delhi.
01The fall of Patan
Anahilavada Patan had been the capital of the Chaulukyas, the house of Mularaja and Bhima, and then of the Vaghelas who followed them. Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan marched in from Delhi early in 1299. Karnadeva II could not meet them in the field and fled south towards the Deccan. His queen Kamala Devi was taken and sent to Alauddin’s harem in Delhi, as Amir Khusrau and the later chroniclers record.
02Somnath again
Somnath had been rebuilt after Mahmud’s raid of 1026 and rebuilt again by Kumarapala. Ziauddin Barani writes that the army broke the idol at Somnath and carried it to Delhi. The Jain teacher Jinaprabha Suri, in the Vividha Tirtha Kalpa, records temples of the region broken by Alauddin’s armies in these years. Khambhat, the rich port, was sacked, and there Nusrat Khan bought a slave named Kafur who would later lead Alauddin’s armies to Devagiri, Warangal, Dwarasamudra and Madurai.
03The road home
On the way back a quarrel over the plunder broke into open mutiny among the newly converted Mongol soldiers. The Kanhadade Prabandha, the Rajasthani epic of Jalor, adds that Kanhadadeva Chauhan of Jalor harried the returning army to recover the image and captives of Somnath. That claim comes from a poem written a century and a half later, but it shows how Gujarat’s loss was remembered in Marwar.
Gujarat, the richest coast of western India, passed under Delhi, and its wealth and ports paid for Alauddin’s southern wars.
