Muntakhab al-tawarikh 4.1.3

4.1.3

In the month of Shawwal, 391 A.H., (1000 A.D.) Mahmud returned to Hindustan from Ghaznin with ten thousand cavalry, and reduced Peshawar. He also again drew up his forces on these frontiers for battle with Jaipal who confronted him with large forces of cavalry and infantry and three hundred elephants. Sultan Mahmud gained the day and Jaipal was taken prisoner together with fifteen of his relatives, his brothers and his sons; and five thousand infidels fell by the sword. Great spoils fell into the hands of the Ghuzas, among them a pearl necklet which was on the neck of Jaipal, which was worth some hundred and eighty thousand dinars, and the necklets of the others too, on the same This victory was on Saturday, the 8th of Muharram, 392 H., (1001 A.D.) Leaving that place Mahmud proceeded to the fortress of Tabarhindah which was the residence of Jaipal, and conquered that country.