First Battle Of Tarain

In 1191, Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori, leading an army of 120,000 men and horses, invaded India through the Khyber Pass and was successful in reaching Punjab.

Chauhan had a larger army of 200000 men and 300 elephants. The two armies met at the town of Tarain, near Thanesar, in present-day Haryana, 150 kilometres north of Delhi.

Ghori could not handle Prithviraj’s forces and was captured as a war prisoner after being defeated.

Prithviraj showed mercy on him and let him return to Afghanistan, much against the wishes of his wife Samyukta and his ministers.

Infact, Prithviraj’s mother had warned him about her dream of an invader.

This one mistake made India ruled by invaders until 1947 CE.