[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Conquests (711–1206)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest) › [Tāj al-maʾāthir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir) › [Taju-l Ma-asir (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot) › 23.2 # Taj al-maʾathir 23.2 Táju-l Ma-ásir (extracts) 23.2 - **Language:** English ### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23.2) After some delay, the various servants and officers of the Province became aware of what had really happened, and the intelligence of the true circumstances was spread throughout the far and near countries of Hind and Sind. Upon this, the tribe of Kokars (Gakkhurs) (God annihilate them!) said that from any one who had the least knowledge and sense, it could not be concealed that if the sacred person of the Sultán had been alive, the like of these transactions could never have been done by Aibak Bák, and that therefore the great king had exchanged his throne of empire for one of dust, and had departed from the house of mortality to the world of holiness. In consequence of these impressions, seditious thoughts entered the brains of the Hindus, and the madness of independence and dominion affected the heads of Bakan and Sarkí, the chiefs of the Kokars, who thrust their heads out of the collar of obedience, and opened their hands for the destruction of villages and the plunder of cattle, and kindled the flames of turbulence and sedition between the waters of the Sodra and the Jelam, by the aid of a crowd of the dependants of Satan." "When their ravages had exceeded all bounds, Bahau-d din Muhammad, governor of Sangwan, with his brothers, who held lands (akta') within the borders of Multan, accompanied by many of the chief people of the city, marched out against them, determined to repress the violence of those accursed rebels and enemies of the State and religion; - [Previous: 23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23.1) - [Next: 23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23.3) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.taj-al-maathir~en-elliot.23.2) · Pramāṇa