The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c7.115

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¹ Bakhtiyar's capture of Uddandapur Bihar nearly synchronised with that of Kalinjar by Aibak which is dated 1203 by Hasan Nizami; *Tajul Maasir*, f. 176b. Fakhre Mudir also seems to refer to Bihar under the year 1203 which he assigns for the capture of Bidur (?); *Tarikh*, p. 25. Next year, according to Minhaj, p. 150, would bring us to 1204. In 1203 and 1205/6 (25th and 27th year) Lakshmanasena was issuing grants from Dharyagrama, possibly on the Bhagirathi; *JASB*, 1942 pp. 70-72. In March 1206 Bakhtiyar's army was destroyed on the Barnadi bridge; see infra, p. 77. Lakshmanasena was certainly alive in 1206 as is proved from the preface to the *Saduktikarnamrita*; see Ray: *Dynastic History*, I, p. 374. To date the event earlier, would conflict with Minhaj's statement that the Sena King 'died in Bang soon after the sack of Nodia'. See, however, *DHB*, I, pp. 223-24, 232 and 247.