History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s2.13

v3.c33.s2.13

Sabuktagin appears to have thoroughly incorporated the conquered territory with his own kingdom, by forcible conversion of the people to Mahomedanism. Elliot thinks that both the battles may have been fought in the valley of Lamghan or Jalalabad (II. p. 436). And Lamghan south and north of Kabul river must have been lost to Jaipal. The story of the conversion of the Aspahdad of Kabul, incidently related by Al-Beruni, must have belonged to this period and not to the time of Alptagin as is supposed by some (Elliot II p. 420), as it appears that Jaipal was long called king of Kabul also.