Vol. VII, No. 11.) The Belkhara Inscription. - 759 
[N.S.] 
In the main, the account given in the ‘‘ Taj-ul-Ma’asir ”’ has 
been followed by the later Muhammadan historians. Qutb-ud- 
din Aibak proceeded against Rai Jai-chand, the very next year 
after the capture of Delhi, and on the way he was joined by 
Sultan Shihab-ud-din. The invading army numbered about 
fifty thousand horse. Qutb-ud-din was placed by the Sultan 
very place is mentioned later on in the ‘‘ Tarikh-i-Shershahi 
as a sandy plain. In the fight Rai Jai-chand was slain while 
directing the movements of his troops from the back o 
elephant, = the fight practically ended with the death of the 
king. The rest of the facts are not important. The defeat of 
the Kanauj ormy was followed by the sack of the important 
fort of Asni, in which the royal treasure was kept. The vic- 
torious army marched on to the sacred city of Benares, which 
Viharas and monasteries of Sarnath was probably completed 
at this time. The work was begun most probably By let 
Mahmid of Ghazni. The for t of Asni was an ancient strong- 
hold of the kingdom of Kanauj. It was a place of oe im- 
portance even in the time of the Pratihara-Gurjara empire. 
One of the pillars in the ancient fort still bears a long inscrip- 
tion of Mahipala.* No mention is made in fliers account of the 
Muhammadan historians of the fate of the Royal family or the 
sons of the deceased king. After the fall of Prthviraje, the 
the case of the Feats of las all artes to the previ- 
ous rulers cease with the death of King Jaya-candra, and the 
last mention is to be found in the Kamil-ut-tawarikh, which 
states that after the battle of Chandawar, Jai-chind’s body 
could not be found, and was discovered under a heap of dead 
bodies. The king was recognized by his false teeth, which were 
set in a frame of AEE ® No further gory is to be found in 
Persian historicai literature, and i quietly assumed by 
modern historians that the Gabeaucta dynasty came to an 
end with Jaya-candra in a.p. 1194. But two “prominent fact 
remained unsettled. Jaya-candra had a son nam aris- 
candra, who was born in the Vikrama year 1232, on the 8th 
day of Bhadra, which corresponds to the 10th August, .p 
ey vol. i 
2 Ibid., vol. ap p. 261. 
8 See Ind. Ant., vol. xvi. The as read by Dr. Flee 
Mahisap4la, p. 174. "The inscri inscription is at -yenieel in the Townhall a 
Fathpur 
+ Elliot’s “ Teg of India,”’ vol. ii, p. 219. 
5 Ibid., p. 
