Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s4.17

c7.s4.17

According to his chroniclers Tīmūr next marched to Nagarkot or Kāngrā (in erstwhile Chamba state). Evidently there was a feeling that every Muslim invader or ruler must visit such a centre of Hindu worship with its wondrous Jawālā Mukhī temple. Mahmūd Ghaznī, Fīrōz Tughlaq, Tīmūr, Akbar, Jahāngīr and Aurangzēb all went there. Its scenic beauty was charming and Tīmūr, in whose time probably the beauties of Kashmir were unknown or inaccessible,¹⁵² also thought of marching through it. *Mulfuzāt's* narrative of this march bears the caption of "Capture of Nagarkot", but this is misleading. Tīmūr seems to have just passed through Kāngrā, and Megha, the then Katoch Raja of Kāngrā¹⁵³ (A. D. 1390-1405), is not mentioned to have been attacked. The chroniclers are mistaken in saying that Dev Rai whom Tīmūr attacked later was defeated at Kāngrā.