The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.27

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Hānsī, a possession of Mahīpāl, raja of Delhi, was captured early in 1038 by Mas‘ūd, but in 1044 Mahīpāl recovered from Maudūd, Mas‘ūd's son, not only Hānsī, but also Thānesar and Kāngra. In 1079 Ibrāhīm, the eleventh king of the Ghaznavid dynasty, led a raid into Western India, and early in the twelfth century Muhammad Bāhlīm, a rebellious governor of the Punjab under Bahrām, the fifteenth king, established himself as far south as Nāgaur, from which town he governed a large tract of country; but the power of the Ghaznavids had long been declining, and, with the exceptions already mentioned, the Hindu states of India were not molested, and were left free to pursue their internecine strife.