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GHIYAS SUCCEEDED BY MOHAMMAD GHORI 85 were to support each other and to charge at full speed. By these tactics the infidels were worsted; the Almighty gave us the victory over them, and they fled. Pithaura alighted from his elephant, mounted a horse, and galloped off, but was captured near Sarsuti and killed. Gfovind Eai of Delhi was slain in the battle, and the Sultan recognized his head by the two teeth which he had broken. Ajmir, the capital, and all the Siwalik hills, Hansi, Sarsuti, and other districts were the results of this victory, which was gained in the year 588 A. H. (1192 A. D.). On his return homeward, the Sultan placed Kutb- ad-din in command of the fort of Kahram, and in the same year this chief, advancing to Mirat, conquered that town and took possession of Delhi. In the follow- ing year he captured the fort of Kol. In the year 590 A. H. (1193 A. D.), the Sultan came back from Ghazni by way of Benares and Kanauj, defeated Rai Jai Chand in the neighbourhood of Chandawal, and captured over three hundred elephants in the battle. Sultan Sa'id Ghiyas-ad-din died at Herat in 599 A. H. (1201 A. D.), while his brother Sultan Mu'izz-ad-din, or Mohammad Ghori, was between Tus and Sarakhs in Khorasan, but the latter returned and secured his ele- vation to the throne. Two years later a rebellion broke out among the Gakkars and the tribes of the hills of Jud, and in the winter Sultan Mohammad went to Hindustan to put down the revolt. He defeated the rebels and made their blood to flow in streams, but as he was returning home