The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.101

v2.c32.s4.101

Besides these struggles, Arṇorāja is reported to have engaged in other conflicts. The *Pṛthvīrāja-vijaya*² states that he defeated the *Mātaṅgas* and once made a great massacre of the Turuṣkas. The latter, we are told, came across the desert (*Marusthalī*). By the time they reached the Cāhamāna dominions, they were so thirsty that according to Jonarāja they had to drink the blood of their horses by striking their shoulders with their weapons. Arṇorāja, it is said, made a great slaughter of them, and afterwards purified the place, by constructing a lake on the battle-field by diverting the waters of the river Candra,³ which rises in *Puṣkarāraṇya*. It is evident from these statements that these Muslims must have raided the temples of the sacred Puṣkara-tīrtha. This appears to be another unrecorded instance of Muslim invasion of India. Possibly the Turuṣkas were troops of the Yamīnīs of Lahore.