The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.51

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The grandson of Govindachandra was Jayachchandra, renowned in the popular Hindī poems and tales of Northern India as Rāja Jaichand, whose daughter was carried off by the gallant Rāi Pithōra of Ajmēr. He was known to the Muhammadan historian as the king of Benares, which, perhaps, may be regarded as having been his capital, and was reputed the greatest king in India. It is alleged that his territory extended from the borders of China to the province of Mālwa, and from the sea to within ten days' journey of Lahore, but it is difficult to believe that it can have been really so extensive. Shihāb-ud-dīn met him at Chandāwar in the Etawah District near the Jumna, and having defeated his huge host with immense slaughter, in which the Rāja was included, passed on to Benares, which he plundered, carrying off the treasure on 1,400 camels.² Thus ends the story of the independent kingdom of Kanauj. When the rājas of the Gaharwār line died out, their place was taken by chiefs of the Chandēl clan from Mahoba, who became the local rulers of Kanauj for eight generations.³