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¹ Raverty, transl. *Tabakāt-i-Nāṣirī*, pp. 456, 459, 467, 468, 485, 486, and App. A. Most English books give the dates inaccurately and miscall the battle-field Tiraurī. A. H. 587, 588, and 589, are almost exactly equivalent to the years A. D. 1191–3, extending from 29th January, 1191, to 26th December, 1193. A Hindu tale that Pṛithivirāja was taken to Ghaznī, where he shot the Sultan, and was then cut to pieces, is false. Sultan Shihāb-ud-dīn was assassinated at the halting-place of ‘Damyek’, in the year 602 (a. d. 1205–6), by a fanatic of the Mulāḥidah sect. The exact spot, the scene of the surprise, has been visited by Mr. G. P. Tate and identified at Dhamiāk in the Jhelum District, Panjāb (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, p. 168). The phrase attributed to Firishtah by his translator that ‘this prodigious army, once shaken, like a great building tottered to its fall, &c.’, is not in the Persian.