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 56 THE HOLY WAKS OF ISLAM read of in books of the ancients and whose like had never been accumulated by kings of Persia or of Greece. The Sultan again resolved on an expedition to Hind, and marching toward Narain, he moved over ground, hard and soft, until he came to the middle of Hind, where he reduced chiefs who up to that time had obeyed INTERIOR OP SULTAN MAHMUD'S TOMB AT GHAZNI. no master, overthrew their idols, put the vagabonds of that country to the sword, and with delay and circum- spection proceeded to accomplish his design. He fought a battle with the chiefs of the infidels, in which God granted him much booty in property, horses, and ele- phants, and the Mussulmans committed slaughter in every hill and valley. The Sultan returned to Ghazni with all the plunder he had obtained. When the ruler of Hind witnessed the calamities