History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s4.28

v3.c33.s4.28

The real difficulty is in determining the names and actions of Hindu chiefs and we have already stated on the basis of epigraphic evidence now available which was not before Elliot that the king of Kanauj was the Pratihāra emperor Râjyapâla and the Chandrarai was the Chandel king Ganda both of whom had assisted Ānaṇdapāla in his fight with Mahmud. Mahmud would certainly have not returned without giving a lesson to both. The advice which Haibal (Rājyapāla) gave to Chandrarai appears to us to be a friendly advice and both escaped without being reduced to subjection. This must have troubled Mahmud and this is, in our view, the reason why he returned again next year as described by Utbi, Nizamuddin Ahmad and even Firishta.