The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.93

c30.93

The Buddhist king of the Sūdra caste mentioned by the pilgrim must be Sihras Rāi, son of Dīwajī, who was succeeded by his son Sāhasī. During the reign of Sihras Rāi, the ever-victorious Arabs, then in the first flush of enthusiasm, entered Makrān (Balūchistan), and were met by Sihras Rāi, who was defeated and slain. Makrān was permanently occupied by the invaders late in A. D. 644, and about two years later, Sāhasī, who continued to oppose the foreign enemy, shared his father's fate. The sceptre then passed into the hands of a Brahman minister named Chach, who ruled for about forty years. Sind was invaded by the Arabs in A. D. 710-11 (A. H. 92), under the command of Muhammad, the son of Kāsim, who defeated and killed Dāhir, the son of Chach, in June, A.D. 712. From that date the ancient Hindu kingdom was extinguished, and the province passed permanently into Muslim hands.¹