The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.77

v3.c20.77

Maudūd’s authority was now established in the Punjab but it commanded none of the respect which the Hindus had yielded to the great Mahmūd, and two years later Mahīpāl, raja of Delhi, re-captured without difficulty Hānsī, Thānesar, and Kāngra, inflaming the zeal of his troops by exhibiting to them at the temple in the last-named fortress a replica of the famous idol carried off by Mahmūd, now believed to have returned by a miracle to its former shrine.