However, despite her stewardship in such a decisive moment in the annals of her kingdom, Naiki Devi is not credited much by any of the chroniclers, including the Gujarati poets (barring Merutunga). It is her infant son who is praised effusively for this rout of the Turkish forces that he so casually and playfully undertook! Far from acknowledging the sagacity and chivalry of the queen, even a mention of her name is not made in these accounts. And when made, it is done with utter condescension as the Chalukyan inscription does, stating that ‘even a woman’ could defeat the invading forces.
