Photo: CNG Coins · CC BY-SA 3.0The account of Sindh under the Brahmana king Chach and his son Dahir, and of its conquest by Muhammad bin Qasim in 711–712.
It describes Dahir’s last battle near Raor, where he fell fighting on his elephant in 712, the burning of the women of Raor fort in jauhar rather than be taken, the fall of Brahmanabad, Alor and Multan, and the jizya laid on the people.
It is the main narrative source for the first Arab conquest on Indian soil and for the Hindu kingdom of Sindh it ended.
ChronicleThe temple chronicle of Shri Jagannath: the kings of Odisha, the rites of the temple and the dangers it passed through.
ChronicleA court history of Sabuktigin and his son Mahmud of Ghazni, written while Mahmud was still raiding Bharat.
ChronicleA study of Hindu learning by a foreign scholar: philosophy, the Gita, Patanjali, astronomy, the calendar, the Puranas, weights and measures and customs.
ChronicleA Sanskrit chronicle in eight books (tarangas), nearly 8,000 verses, of the kings of Kashmir from the earliest times to Kalhana’s own day.
ChronicleA Sanskrit mahakavya by Jayanaka, a Kashmiri poet at the court of Prithviraj Chauhan, written in the king’s lifetime.
ChronicleThe court chronicles of the Ahom kingdom, kept year by year for six centuries from the arrival of Sukaphaa in 1228.
ChronicleA general history ending with the Delhi Sultanate, the main source for the Ghurid conquest of north India.
Chronicle‘The Treasures of Victories’: a Persian prose account of Alauddin Khalji’s campaigns to 1311, written by an eyewitness of his court.
