1 MAUDUD; ABGL HUSEIN; ABDGL RASHfD. 89
2 of Maudtid’s life. Maudid was soon after siezed with a severe bowel com-
3 plaint and died at Ghazni, on December 24th, 1049, having reigned upwards
4 of nine years.*
5 SULTAN ABUL HUSEIN.
6 On the death of Maudud, his son, Masud IL, a child four years old, was
7 raised to the throne by the party of Ali Bin Rubea; but the troops of the
8 latter were worsted by Alaptagin Hajib, who had espoused the cause of
9 Abd] Husein, a son of the Emperor Masud L, and, the infant king having
10 been deposed, after a nominal reign of six days, AbGl Hasan was proclaimed
11 emperor of Ghazni.
12 Ali Bin Rubea, the rebel officer, having plundered the royal treasury at
13 Ghazni and brought over to his side a portion of the household troops, fled
14 to Peshawar, and, coalescing with the inhabitants, raised a large army,
15 with which he reduced Multdn and Sindh and subdued the Afghans, who,
16 taking advantage of the disorder that prevailed in the country, had declared
17 their independence. Abul Husein, who was unable to restore order in the
18 Panjab, was, towards the end of 1051, defeated and deposed by Abdul Rashid,
19 a son of Sultén Mahmdd, after reigning a little more than two years.
20 SULTAN ABDUL RASHID.
21 The first act of the new Sultdn was to prevail on Ali Bin Rubea, who
22 had usurped the Indian possessions of the Ghaznivides in the north-west,
23 to return to his allegiance; and peace was restored on the frontier of the
24 Panjab. Nashtagin Hajib received the rank of amér, and, having been ap-
25 pointed governor of the provinces east of the Indus, was sent with a large
26 army to Lahore. Nagarkot had again fallen into the hands of the Hindus;
27 but the Mahomedan troops laid siege tv it, and, scaling the walls, on the
28 sixth day of the siege, carried the town. Abddl Rashid reigned one year,
29 at the end of which he was assassinated by Toghral, usurper, and an amér
30 of Maudud’s Court, who forcibly married a daughter of the late Sultan
31 Masfid. The usurper was, in his turn, assassinated by Am{fr Nashtagin
32 * Maudiud struck coins at Lahore bearing the following inscription :—
33 Jes
34 ands SHS
35 vray” AU get
36 “The Just, ttre Star of the Faith, the Valiant Maudidd.”
37 According to Mr. Rodgers, the principal authority on Panjab coins, these coins were of
38 four distinct types. They all had the bull on one side, and over it was the inscription in
39 Hindi, Sri Samanta Deva. In these coins Lahore is spelt dy oJ Lohor. Albiruni calls
40 Lahore J3ldy) (Lohawar).
41 Mr. M. L. Dames, C.S., obtained a gold coin of Maudud from a banker of Dera Ismail Khan
42 who had bought it from a Povinda merchant. It had the following inscription :—
43 [Obverse.]-
44 - -
45 J StH Y xdoys «\J} Jy dare aUS as}
46 “There is no God but God, and Muhammad the Prophet of God. He is One; no one is
47 His partner.
48 [Reverse.)
49 haw S305 bI SJ} whe SU] ol ent
50 ‘The Star of State, Maudud, who rules by the command of God. Year ee he ce EP
51 Death of Maudud,
52 1049 A D,
53 Masud II.
54 Abul Husein pro-
55 claimed emperor.
56 He is deposed
57 1051 a,D.
58 Accession of Sultan
59 Abdul Rashid.
60 Nashtagin Hajib
61 appointed governor
62 of the Panjab,
63 Assassination of
64 Sultan Abdul Rashf{d,
65 1052 A.D,
66 Ooins of Maudiid,
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