History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c17.s6.23

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advices that a Rājā named Nanda (Ganda) had slain the “Rai of Kanauj” for “placing himself in subjection to him he was furious and forthwith determined to chastise the miscreant Hindu rulers for their audacity. He accordingly marched from Ghazni in the autumn of 410 Hijri i.e., October, 1019 A. D.,¹ and first advanced against Tarū Jaibāl or Tarū Jaypāl (Trilocanapāla), the son of the dead king,² who had ascended the throne probably as a protégé of Ganda. Unlike his father, Trilocanapāla tried to offer resistance,³ but a surprise attack by a selected body of the Sultan’s troops, who had crossed the river Rahib or Rāmgangā⁴ unnoticed, threw his army into utter confusion; and Bari, which had become a sort of capital after Rājyapāla’s retirement thither,⁵ fell an easy prey to the cruel sword of the invader. This city lay to the east of the Ganges at a distance of three to four days’ journey from Kanauj,⁶