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RISE OF A DESTROYER

"The Hammira did not breathe freely, thinking of the superhuman powers of the mysterious Trilochanapala."6 It had taken over fifteen years for the ruthless Ghaznavite father and son to wipe the Shahi power out of existence. 

And thus did Al-Biruni, the contemporary, sing their elegy:

"The Hindu Shahiya dynasty is now extinct, and of the whole house there is no longer the slightest remnant in existence. We must say that, in all their grandeur, they never slackened in the ardent desire of doing that which is good and right, that they were men of noble sentiment and noble bearing."7


6 RT. VII. 64-65.
7 Al. 11. 13,

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