Photo: Unknown scribe & Illuminator. · Public domainA court history of Sabuktigin and his son Mahmud of Ghazni, written while Mahmud was still raiding Bharat.
It records the defeat and capture of the Shahi king Jayapala near Peshawar in 1001, and the raids on Thanesar, Mathura and Kannauj. Of Mathura, Mahmud is made to say that a building to equal its temple could not be raised for a hundred million dinars or in less than two hundred years.
It is a contemporary record, from the attacker’s own court, of the Ghaznavid raids and the Hindu Shahi stand.
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