The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c12.184.3

v1.c12.184.3

And it had nearly happened that the army (of the Sulṭān) were wounded (worsted), and that the infidels had obtained the high hand. However...the Sulṭān with his own guards made a charge, under which the feet of the infidels were unable to stand."¹ After this victory Maḥmūd raided and plundered the rich temple of Nagarkot² (A. H. 400=1009 A.D.) Soon after Maḥmūd again renewed his depredations on the *Śāhi* dominions, and virtually put an end to their independent power. 'Utbī informs us that "when the king of Hind witnessed the marks of the wound of the Sulṭān's standard in the nearest and most distant part of his kingdom, and ascertained his weakness in resisting the army of Islam, he sent the chiefs of his kindred and the flower of his guards on an embassy to offer submission to the Sulṭān, and humbled himself, and bound himself to tribute and fidelity, and appointed 60 yokes of elephants to be sent by him as a service to his beloved fortune, and assigned a payment to be mutually arranged, which should be sent yearly by the nobles of that province, and the people of that district to his treasury.