The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.102

v1.c20.102

¹ *Elliot*, Vol. II, p. 41-46. I have followed the contemporary account of the *TY*; Niẓām ud-Dīn and Firishta appear to give a defective account of this campaign. They are clearly wrong when they say that Maḥmūd first captured Kanauj and then Baran and Mathura. These two places lay in the way of Maḥmūd from the Punjab to Kanauj, and it is much easier to agree with ‘Utbī who says that Maḥmūd captured those places before he came to Kanauj. The name of the Kanauj prince is also wrongly given by the last two authorities. Niẓam ud-Dīn (Text, Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1911, p. 12), gives the name as Kūrah (كوره) ; Firishta (Lucknow Text, 1864, p. 29), though he claims to have consulted the work of ‘Utbī, blindly follows him in giving the same name. Elliot read the name given by ‘Utbī as *Rāi Jaipāl*, while Reinaud gave it as ‘Rājā Pāl’ and ‘Rajaipāl,’ which all seem to be variants of Rājyapāla, see *Elliot*, Vol. II, p. 45, fn. 2. In the *KZA*, p. 76, the name is given as راجبال In the British Museum MS. of the *TY*, (Add. 23, 341 f. 143a), the name is given as راجيبال which may well be a mistake for راجيپال In the Arabic Text of the same work edited by 'Alī and Sprenger (Delhi, 1847, p. 403) the name is written as راجيبال In another Arabic Text of the *TY*, printed on the margin of *TKA*, (Bulak, 1874, Vol. II, p. 79) the name of the king is given as راجيپال . *TKA* (*ibid*, pp. 98 and 115) itself gives the name as راجيپال and راجيبال. In the *Rauzat uṣ-Ṣafā* of Mīrkhond (Text, Lucknow, 1874, p. 740) the name is given as جيبال راي He appears to have mistaken the را of the name given by 'Utbī as رای He thus thought he was quite right in writing *Rāy Jaypāl* as *Jaypāl Rāy*. The *Ḥabīb uṣ-Siyar* of his grandson Khond Mīr (Text, Bombay, 1857, Vol. II, Chap IV, p. 23) gives the name of the king as جيبال Thus 'Rājyapāla' was gradually changed into 'Jayapāla.'