Jayapala
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Jayapala Shahi, the son of Asatapala, succeeded the last Brahmin Hindu Shahi Bhima and thus began the start of the Janjua Rajput phase of Gandhara Shahiya Dynasty.
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[edit] Career
Jayapala saw a danger in the consolidation of a new kingdom and assaulted Ghazni under both Sebuk Tigin and his son Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, thereby beginning the Ghaznavid and Hindu Shahi struggles.[1] Under Sebuk Tigin he was defeated and then forced to pay an indemnity;[1] he defaulted on the payment and took the field once more[1] and lost lands all the way from Kabul to the Neelum River.[2] In 1001 soon after Mahmud came to power to and was occupied with the Qarakhanids to his north, he assaulted Ghazni once more and upon suffering his yet another defeat to the Ghaznavid forces in 1001 AD, near Peshawar, committed himself to a funeral pyre because his subjects thought he had brought disaster and disgrace to the dynasty.[1]
[edit] Succession
He was succeeded by his son Anandapala[1] and other succeeding generations of the Shahiya dynasty took part in various unsuccessful campaigns against Ghazni, and were eventually exiled to Kashmir Siwalik Hills.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] Sources
- Ferishta, History of the Rise of Mohammedan Power in India, Volume 1: Section 15 Online Version last accessed 20 Oct 2006
- Ram Gopal Misra, Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders Up to 1206 A.D., Anu Books, Shivaji Road, Meerut city, 1983. The book has been reprinted in 1992.
- Sita Ram Goel: Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders, 2001.
- P. M. ( Peter Malcolm) Holt, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge University Press, Apr 21, 1977, ISBN 0-521-29137-2
[edit] See also
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