What it says
It tells how Muhammad of Ghor was wounded and his army routed by Prithviraj at Tarain in 1191, and how he returned the next year and won. It describes Bakhtiyar Khalji’s attack on a walled place in Bihar whose people were mostly shaven-headed Brahmanas, who were all killed; many books were found there, and it was learned that the whole place was a college, which the Hindus call a vihara. It also tells of the flight of Lakshmana Sena from Nadia.
What it proves
It is the near-contemporary record of both battles of Tarain and of the destruction of the great monastic universities of Bihar.
