Muntakhab al-tawarikh 3: SULTAN NASIRU-D-DIN SUBUKTIGIN

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of Turki origin, the slave of Alptigin who was a servant of Amir Mansur-ibn-Nuh Samani, in the year 367 H. after the death of Abu Ishaq, the son of Alptigin, by common consent of the army, succeeded to the imperial throne in the city of Ghaznin and raised the standard of conquest, and girding up the loins of energy and effort for foray and religious war, he invaded Hindustan on the frontiers of the country of Koh-i-Jud; and having fought a severe battle with Jaipal who was the ruler of Hindustan, concluded peace with him. Jaipal, however, broke the treaty. Accordingly Nasiru-d-din Subuktigin equipped an army, composed of 20,000 cavalry and numberless elephants huge as mountains, and engaged in conflict with him a second time, fought a great battle with him in the neighbourhood of Lamghanat; the breeze of victory stirred the banners of Amir Nasiru-d-din, the army of Jaipal suffered defeat, and he himself took to flight and sought refuge in Hindustan. Thus Lamghanat came into the possession of Amir Nasiru-d-din, the Khutbah was read and the coin struck in his name. Then he proceeded to the assistance of Amir Nuh ibn Mansur Samani and was the means of procuring victories in Khurasan and the regions beyond the river. Finally in the month of Sha'ban of the year 387 A.H. (997 A.D.,) he obediently submitted to the summons of the Almighty, having reigned for twenty years.