The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.48
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.48
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c31.s8.48
Rāi Lakhmaniya, as the author calls him, fled to Bikrampur in the Dacca district,¹ where he died; and the conqueror presently destroyed the city of Nūdīah, establishing the seat of his government at the ancient Hindu city of Lakhnautī, or Gaur. Mosques, colleges, and Muhammadan monasteries were endowed by him and his officers in all parts of the kingdom, and a great portion of the spoil was judiciously sent to his distant chief, Kutb-ud-dīn.