"So he prayed to the Almighty for aid, and left Ghaznî on the 10th of Sha’bãn AH 414… with 30,000 horse besides volunteers, and took the road to Multãn. After he had crossed the desert he perceived on one side a fort full of people, in which there were wells. People came down to conciliate him, but he invested the place, and God gave him victory… So he brought the place under the sway of Islãm, killed the inhabitants, and broke in pieces their images…"
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Ibn al-Athir The Complete History, Sultãn Mahmûd of Ghazni (AD 997-1030) (Rajasthan and Gujarat) Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II. pp. 469-71
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Ibn al-Athir
1160 – 1233
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī (Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was an Hadith expert, historian, and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family.[5] At the age of twenty-one he settled with his father in Mosul to continue his studies, where he devoted himself to the study of history and Islamic tradition.
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