History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s4.15

v3.c33.s4.15

Having conquered Khwarism which had meantime rebelled and having annexed that land to his other kingdoms, “the Sultan thought he would undertake a third sacred conquest and he arrived at Bost and examined the accounts of collectors. The conquests of Hindu territories so as to become the territory of Islam were overflowing and “the veil of infidelity remained nowhere except in Kashmir”. “Nearly twenty thousand men had come from the plains of Mawarannahar (beyond the Oxus) through zeal for Islam. They excited the purpose of the Sultan and he desired to proceed with those troops to Kanauj. This was a country quite unknown to foreign kingdoms.”