History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s3.43

v3.c33.s3.43

His son Trilochanapāla must have offered submission. We have already seen that Al-Beruni has recorded that Anandapāla had latterly become a deadly enemy of Mahmud but that Trilochanapāla his son was better disposed. We, therefore, take it that Anandapāla, instead of being killed in the battle of the confederate Hindus, was killed at this time (1009 or 1010) and Trilochanapāla offered terms of submission. Mahmud granted the terms and by these Panjab practically became a subordinate province of the Ghaznavide empire. The terms were as follows: "The king bound himself to tribute and fidelity and appointed sixty yokes (?) of elephants and a payment to be mutually fixed and sent by the nobles of the province and the people to the treasury. And by way of acting as viceroy the king was to keep two thousand men at his court and acknowledge fealty every day and month and year, and the succeeding rulers were to obey and follow the same law. The Sultan was content with these conditions and this secured tax became a fixed source of revenue in the book of the finance court of the Empire Thus the road for caravans and merchants between the districts of Khorasan and Hind became open". (p. 362).