Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s6.26

c14.s6.26

¹⁴¹ Sālār Mas'aūd Ghāzī was a celebrated general of Mahmūd Ghaznavī, who, after numberless encounters with the Hindus, fell at their hands in a battle near Bahraich in A. D. 1033 (424 H). T.A., I, 336 and note in De's trs., 386; T.D., 40; Dorn, I, 66. Reverence for this "martyr and Ghāzī" was natural, but in the procession to Bahraich the Sultan saw a tinge of idolatry and banned it.