Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . find the arms of Islam at once on the Gangesand the Ebro, and two regal dynasties simultaneously cut off,that of Roderic, the last of the Goths of Andaloos, and DahirDespati in the valley of the Indus. It was in 99 ( 712,S. 774) that Muhammad bin Kasim vanquished and slew Dahir, ^ [Ferishta (i. 2) calls him Sayyid bin Abiu-1-Aas.] See Table next page. Marigny (quoting EI-Makin), Hist, of the Arabians, vol. ii. p. 283 ;Mod. Univ. Hint. vol. ii. p. 47. 03 ^ c3 a .^ 00 g IS o C^ QJ do Sg ° d CO P o «
Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . find the arms of Islam at once on the Gangesand the Ebro, and two regal dynasties simultaneously cut off,that of Roderic, the last of the Goths of Andaloos, and DahirDespati in the valley of the Indus. It was in 99 ( 712,S. 774) that Muhammad bin Kasim vanquished and slew Dahir, ^ [Ferishta (i. 2) calls him Sayyid bin Abiu-1-Aas.] See Table next page. Marigny (quoting EI-Makin), Hist, of the Arabians, vol. ii. p. 283 ;Mod. Univ. Hint. vol. ii. p. 47. 03 ^ c3 a .^ 00 g IS o C^ QJ do Sg ° d CO P o « to £-J oD fl o-H 4J -g — i^ i3 o* So o« . ISdg^l?S-H m c« B +3 (D CO - U 5j rl a 5^ ocS oQ o_, i d, ,^ a3T3 d,a-tJ -w OJ « cS cS daa;2-3-=rt^.2 5 « d ^ d o a •t^doS^SSo-wdSSPiScdS 02 ;::; w ; B >» AGHDHAZN aghdammai h do.) 4 m,^o fq P s i & csn -d ms .. > O d d d M MM 5-73 •-S d -aa. 286 ANNALS OF MEWAR prince of Sind, after numerous conflicts. Amongst the spoilsof victory sent to the c^|j^h on this occasion were the daughtersof the subjugated monarch, who were the cause of Kasims de-struction,^ when he was on the eve of earrjdng the war againstRaja [244] Harchand of Kanauj. Some authorities state thathe actually prosecuted it ; and as Sind remained a dependencyof the caliphat during several successive reigns, the successor ofKasim may have executed his plans. Little is said of India fromthis period to the reign of Al-Mansur, except in regard to therebellion of Yazid in Khorasan, and the flight of his son to eight sovereigns, who rapidly followed, were too much engagedwith the Christians of the west and the Huns on the Caspian tothink of India. Their armies were then in the heart of France,which was only saved from the Koran by their overthrow atTours by Charles Martel. Al-Mansur, when only the lieutenant of the Caliph Abbas, heldthe government of Sind an
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