Twilight of the Sultanate c8.s2.10

c8.s2.10

⁶⁶ Ferishta, II, 305; T.A., I, 261. T.M.S. 175 has چون سلطان (محمود) نزديك قنوج رسيد سلطان ابراهيم مقابل قنوج گذارا آب گنگ آمده نزول كرد (At the approach of Sultan (Mahmūd) to Qannauj, Sultan Ibrahīm (also) arrived opposite to Qannauj at the ford of the river Ganga, and encamped.) In a foot-note the editor of the text says that one of the MSS. even omits the word آب (river). There is thus no reason to agree with Badaonī, Ranking, I, 363, that he crossed the Ganga.