Saturday, August 1, 2020

Jaipal

Jaipal Hindushahi ruler of Waihind (Lidabhandapur) in north-western
India, he was defeated convincingly by Mahmud of Ghazni in a battle near
Peshawar in AD 100 I. He is said to have committed suicide out of
humiliation, leaving his son Anandapala on the throne. But the latter was also
defeated by Mahmud in ad 1008, thus ending the Hindushahi dynasty.


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