The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.92
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.92
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Bahrām was succeeded by his son Khusrav Shāh, a feeble ruler in whose reign a horde of the Ghuzz tribe of Turkmāns invaded Khurāsān and defeated and captured Sultān Sanjar, who died in their hands in 1157. From Khurāsān the Turkmāns advanced on Ghaznī, and Khusrav Shāh fled before them to Lahore, where he died in 1160. The Punjab was all that now remained to the descendants of Sabuktigīn of the wide domains of their ancestors. The Ghuzz Turkmāns retained possession of Ghaznī for ten years and it then fell into the hands of the princes of Ghūr.