The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c13.25

c13.25

Changiz spared India on this occasion, but with Mangbarni were commenced a series of invasions on the cis-Indus region. Having collected such of his followers as had succeeded in crossing the river, he obtained arms by a night attack on a party of robbers near by, and then defeated a force of about five thousand Hindu troops sent by the chief of the Salt Range². News of this success reaching Changiz, a force was sent in his persuit from Ghazni. As the latter crossed the Indus, Mangbarni, anxious to avoid them, turned south towards Lahore. The Mongols, probably unwilling to open hostilities with Delhi, did not persue him into the Punjab, but contended themselves by plundering a fortress called Malikpur in the vicinity of the Salt Range³.