briefly describe the second Battle of tarain
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The second Battle of Tarain 1192 AD was fought between Hindu Emperor Prithviraj Chauhan and Muslim Barbarian Muhammad Ghori. After crushing & killing Prithviraj & raping his buxom bride Sanyogita, Gory Ghori broke into the capital city of Ajayameru and a mass carnage ensued. The second battle of tarain was probably the most terrifying war in India's history, where over 10,00,000 Hindu soldiers were killed in just 10 hours of vigorous fighting.
After the ten hour long war, where more than a million hindus had perished, Ghori broke into the capital city of Ajayameru. He made sure that none survived. Over 20,00,000 inhabitants of the city were butchered. 5,00,000 young hindu women were raped and mass atrocities were committed. His soldiers indiscriminately impaled people and even children were slaughtered. The city now known as “Ajmer” was said to be the richest city in the world at its time. Several tibetian & arabian travellers came there and remarked “chahamanas - the richest settlement ever”. It was said to be two times larger than Rome and three times larger than Beijing. Now, the capital city is a muslim town, where only few hindus live.
“The seige of Ajayameru was the bloodiest seige in the medieval period. It saw the deaths of more than 20,00,000 hindus. More than 5,00,000 youthful hindu women were systematically raped and people were impaled. The streets of the city were filled with impaled bodies of butchered hindu men. Muhammad Ghori, an ugly barbarian, spared no one, and within a few hours, the great golden city became a slaughter-house of Hindus”- Arnold Toynbee (British Indologist)
“With swords & spears, with crowbars and axes, muslims carried on day after day their work of destruction of Ajayameru. Never perhaps in the history of the world has such havoc been wrought, and wrought so suddenly, on so splendid a city; teeming with a wealthy and potent population in the full plenitude of prosperity one day, and on the next seized, pillaged, and reduced to ruins, amid scenes of savage, massacre, butchery and repeated rapes beggaring description”- Lane Pool (British Historian)