The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c7.5

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¹ On one or two occasions when Muizzuddin came to Peshawar, he might have used the Khaibar, but the southern routes were more convenient. The troops of the Khwarizm Shah, with a view to capture Yalduz, the ruler of Gazni, in 1215, are stated to have siezed the frontier routes into Hindusthan, "leading towards Gardaiz and Karaha pass", that is, the Kurram valley; Yalduz had to take a more southeasterly route, through the "Sang-i-Surakh" mountains, which according to Raverty op. cit. p. 505, is the name given to three or four passes; Minhaj, p. 135. Through the province of "Karman and Sankuran", the old name of the tract between