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used to kill and eat their horses. Khalji then thought that since they cannot go back the way they had come they have to find a way to Kamrup and proceeded towards it. But when they were noticed by the spies of the Kamrup king, they thought that Khalji had attacked their realm. So when the Rai was informed, he made plans to lure them to the point where a river named as "Begmati" (some scholars identify the river as the
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misled the Rai
Bahadur (Barua) into taking Prithu to be a king of Kamrupa. It is, therefore, necessary here to discuss again the proofs on which the existence of this Prithu rests. The only authority for the existence of this Prithu is the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri,...I hope it is clear now, that Prithu must
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who inflicted heavy casualties on
Bhaktiyar's forces by carrying relentless guerrilla-style attack on the Turkish army. Their return journey was cut off. And in the meantime, the rainy season started and many died due to pestilence and diseases. Their rations were diminishing. A time came when they
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jointly. But then he informed Khalji's emissaries that the time was not right. As the rainy season was about to start, leading to great hardship, and perilous ascent to the mountains it was advisable to start the campaign after one season. But Khalji by that time had already arrived and was camping
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refers to him simply as the 'Rae of Kamrud' (Raja of
Kamarupa). But the same source speaks of one Barthu or Britu of Oudh ... who was at last overthrown by Nasiruddin. Raverty and Sir Wolsey think that this Britu was king Prithu of Kamarupa. Minhaj, perhaps wrongly, mentioned him as the ruler of
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Bakhtiyar Khalji's army had already crossed, thus cutting off their retreat. The invading force encountered stiff resistance upon entering the rough mountainous terrain of Tibet and decided to retreat. However, the retreat and the attempt to cross the river were disastrous as his forces were
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or spiked bamboos and drew the whole surviving army of ten thousand into a gully and attacked them and mercilessly cut them down. In an attempt to cross the river
Bhaktiyar Khilji lost a number of men and horses. After crossing the
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Bakhtiar then made a desperate attempt bid to cross the bridge with his men and horses at a point where the river, form the looks of it was shallow but was actually very deep. The
Turkish army lost many men and also their
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The accursed Bartu (Britu), beneath whose sword above a hundred and twenty thousand
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The Rai of Kamrup allowed
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