The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c23.2

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Minhaj calls it Tarain (printed text. p. 118). A slight change in the dots over the first letter would make it Narain in Persian script, and both Ferishta and Nizamuddin Bakshi adopt the latter reading. They however, add that it was near Tarai in the district of Sarsuti (*khitta-i-Sarsuti*); Ferishta says that 'Narain' was also known as Tarawari. On the basis of this latter statement Elphinstone (*History of India* p. 355) places the battle field between Karnal anl Thaneswar, evidently identifying Tarain with Azimabad-Tarawari. 14 miles south of Thaneswar; This is accepted in the *Punjab Gazetteer*, (I, p. 318), and by Vaidya (*Downfall of Hindu India*, III, p. 333) and Raverty, (*trans. Tab. Nas.* p. 459, note 7.)