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DEATH OF THE EMPRESS 109 Delhi to repel his opponents, and Sultan Raziya and Malik Altuniya were defeated. When they reached Kaithal in their flight, their remaining forces aban- doned them, and they both fell into the hands of the Hindus and were killed. The date of this defeat was the twenty-fourth of Rabi'-al-awwal, 638 A. H. (Oct. 13, 1240 A. D.), and the Sultan Raziya was killed on the day following, after a reign of three years and six days/ A PROJECTILE USED IN INDIAN 1 WARFARE.
