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¹ Elphinstone, *Hist. of India*, 5th ed., p. 338. Shihāb-ud-dīn is designated by an inconvenient variety of names and titles, as Muḥammad the son of Sām, Muḥammad Ghorī, or Muizz-ud-dīn. Similarly, his elder brother and colleague, who was also named Muḥammad, is known as both Shams-ud-dīn and Ghiyās-ud-dunyā wa ud-dīn (Raverty, *J. A. S. B.*, vol. xlv, part 1, p. 328). The article cited fully justifies the chronology adopted in the text. Rājā Jaichand was defeated and killed at Chandāwar in the Etāwah District near the Jumna. Mr. Banerji rightly points out that there is no evidence that Kanauj was then sacked. The Musalman army passed on to Benares. But the Kanauj territory, including the city, must have then passed under Muhammadan control. The army probably did not visit Kanauj, which is on the Ganges. The city certainly was taken by Iltutmish (Altamsh) in or about a. d. 1226 (*J. & Proc. A. S. B.*, 1911, pp. 761, 765, 769). It would seem that in 1194 Kanauj was treated as an unimportant place which could be left aside without danger.