Prithviraj was defeated, captured and put to death; Govindaraja fell on the field.
01A day of feints
Minhaj-us-Siraj says Muhammad came with a hundred and twenty thousand horse. He divided his light cavalry into four bodies that rode against the Rajput flanks and rear, loosed arrows and fell back whenever the elephants and heavy horse advanced, then came again. Firishta says the attack came at dawn, before the Hindu camp was ready. By late afternoon the Rajput army was tired and strung out. Muhammad then threw in twelve thousand fresh armoured horsemen he had held back, and the line broke.
02The fall of Ajmer and Delhi
Prithviraj left the field and was caught near the Sarasvati, by Minhaj’s account, and put to death. Govindaraja died fighting; Minhaj says he was recognised by his broken teeth from the year before. Ajmer was taken, its temples broken and a mosque begun on the site of a Sanskrit college, the building now called Adhai Din ka Jhonpra, which still shows temple pillars. Prithviraj’s son was left as a vassal in Ajmer for a while. Qutb-ud-din Aibak took Delhi in 1193.
Second Tarain opened the Gangetic plain to the Ghurids and led to the Delhi Sultanate in 1206.
