“The Paramara “surgical strike” that brought three Turkish Sultanates to their knees”, Bharat Voice, June 15, 2023:
Among the annals of ignored yet important Sanskrit inscriptions is the “Nagpur Museum Stone inscription” also called as the “Nagpur Prashasti” presently located, as its name suggests in a museum in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The inscription was commissioned by a ruler called Naravarmadeva. At least 20 lines of this inscription are on a heroic emperor from Malwa called Paramara Lakshmadeva – the brother of Naravarma.
Verse 54 of this inscription is the most unique verse for any 11th-12th century Indian epigraph. It explicitly speaks about an intense battle across the Oxus river in Central Asia against the Islamic Turkish sultanates.
The very fact that an Indian Hindu ruler had the gumption to attack some of the most powerful Islamic sultanates deep in their own homeland was so unbelievable in colonial and post-colonial times, that historians dismissed these claims as “poetic exaggerations”. However, there are more than sufficient grounds to believe that the verse has a lot of truth in it.
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