The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.313

v3.c20.313

Kāner Deo of Jālor had been permitted to return to his dominions, though he had once aroused the king’s wrath by the foolish vaunt that he was prepared at any time to meet him in the field. The boast was not forgotten, and on the raja’s exhibiting signs of contumacy ‘Alā-ud-dīn sent against him, in bitter contempt, an army under the command of one of the female servants of his palace, named Gul-i-Bihisht (‘the Rose of Paradise’). The woman was a capable commander, the Kāner Deo was on the point of surrendering to her when she fell sick and died. Her son Shāhīn, who succeeded her in the command, had less military ability than his mother, and was defeated and slain, but after the arrival of reinforcements under Kamāl-ud-dīn Gurg (‘the Wolf’) Jālor was taken and Kāner Deo and his relations were put to death.