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Draft:Muslim first invasion of orissa

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Bakhtiyar Khalji sent his two powerful and trusted generals like Muhammad-I -Sheran and Ahmad-I-Sheran, to attack Jajanagra (Jajpur, Odisha) and Lakhnauti . Both of them were brothers in relation. And Bakhtiyar Khalji himself marched towards Himalaya to conquer Tibet .[1] When Sheran brothers came to attack Odisha, Then the ruler of Odisha / Utkala was Emperor Rout Devendraverman Rajarajadeva III, who belonged to the Eastern Ganga dynasty of the Kshatriya Khandayats. When the Turko-Afghans attacked under the command of Sheran brothers, they were very severely defeated by the Khandayats. Khandayats inflicted a crushing defeat on the Turkish invaders. Devendraverman Rajaraja III had strongly resisted and successfully annihilated the Mohammedan armies with the help of his Commanders like Vishnu and Monkana Chamunath (Chamupati / Champatti / Champattiray ).[2] [3] [4] . He had also engaged himself in this prolonged war . Rajaraja III defeated the Sheran Brothers and killed many Turkish warriors. The Drakshrama inscription of Monkana Chamunath and the Srikurmam inscription of Rajaraja III reveal his victory of this war . The inscription of Odisha general Manakana Chamunath at Drakshrama describes the victory obtained at ease by Rajaraja III against the king of Gouda and Gajjana .[5] [6] According to Telugu inscription of Srikurmam Temple inscribed in 1211 AD , Kandamaraju , Son of Dangeti Munaraju launched warfare against the Sultan in favour of his master Rajarajadeva III and claimed to have killed a large numbers of Muslim Warriors belonging to the enemy front . Kandamaraju as a Mahamandaleswar under the Gangas and he hailed from the family of Sahasrajuna Haihaya . [7] [8]

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