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 "id": "person/prithviraj-chauhan",
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  "ar": "ملك الهند صاحب أجمير (برتفي راج)",
  "en": "Prithviraj, king of Hind"
 },
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  "ar": "ملك الهند صاحب أجمير — المُعرَّف في المصادر الحديثة ببرتفي راج التشوهاني — الذي هزم شهاب الدين الغوري سنة ثلاث وثمانين وخمسمائة؛ فلما عاد شهاب الدين سنة ثمان وثمانين سار في أثره أربع منازل حتى أحاط به المسلمون ليلاً وهو لا يعلم، فلما طلع الفجر حملوا عليه من كل جانب فوقف على فيله حتى أُسر، فسأله شهاب الدين: لو استأسرتني ماذا كنت تفعل بي؟ فقال: قد استعملت لك قيداً من ذهب أقيدك به، فقال شهاب الدين: بل نحن لا نجعل لك من القدر ما نقيدك؛ فأُخذت أجمير وأقطعت لقطب الدين أيبك وقُتل ملك الهند {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 221-222}.",
  "en": "The king of Hind at Ajmer — identified in modern histories as Prithviraj Chauhan — who had routed Shihab al-Din in 583 and fell into his trap in 588: taken standing on his elephant at dawn, he answered the famous question ('had you taken me?') with 'I had a golden fetter for you', heard 'we give you no rank worth a fetter', and was killed as Ajmer passed to Aybak {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 221-222}."
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  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
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  "gender": "male",
  "died": {
   "hijri": "0588",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "قتل بعد الوقعة سنة ٥٨٨هـ {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 222}.",
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   "ruler"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ — ابن الأثير، مسح kamilt00_201908، ص 221-222",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ملك الهند صاحب أجمير. تعرّفه المصادر الحديثة ببرتفي راج التشوهاني. هزم شهاب الدين الغوري سنة 583هـ، بحسب ابن الأثير. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.221-222}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأسر",
     "markdown": "ويذكر ابن الأثير أن [[person/shihab-al-din-ghuri|شهاب الدين]] عاد سنة 588هـ، فسار الملك في أثره أربع منازل حتى أحاط به المسلمون ليلاً وهو لا يعلم. فلما طلع الفجر حملوا عليه من كل جانب، فوقف على فيله حتى أُسر. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.221-222}\n\nيروي أن شهاب الدين سأله ماذا كان يفعل لو أسره، فقال إنه أعد قيداً من ذهب. فأُخذت أجمير وأُقطعت لقطب الدين أيبك، وقُتل ملك الهند سنة 588هـ. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.222}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/prithviraj-chauhan",
    "lang": "ar",
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   }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "King of India, lord of Ajmer. Modern sources know him as Prithviraj Chauhan. According to Ibn al-Athir, he defeated [[person/shihab-al-din-ghuri|Shihab al-Din al-Ghuri]] in 583 AH. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.221-222}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The capture",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Athir reports that Shihab al-Din returned in 588 AH, and the king pursued him for four stages, until the Muslims surrounded him at night without his knowing it. When dawn came they attacked him from every side, and he stood on his elephant until he was captured. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.221-222}\n\nIt is related that Shihab al-Din asked him what he would have done had he captured him, and he said that he had prepared a golden shackle. Ajmer was then taken and granted as an iqta to Qutb al-Din Aybak, and the king of India was killed in 588 AH. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.222}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/prithviraj-chauhan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "role": "ملك الهند المأسور المقتول",
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  "person/shihab-al-din-ghuri",
  "event/killing-of-shihab-al-din-ghuri-602",
  "person/ghiyath-al-din-muhammad-ibn-sam",
  "person/qutb-al-din-aybak"
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