पृथ्वीराज रासो (सटीक हिन्दी व्याख्या)

३ पृथ्वीराजरासो । [ नवां समय ४०
Shahab-ud-din, he must have made his escape afterwards and returned to Prithiraj. The
elder Husain is undoubtedly the same as Nasir-ud-din Husain, who is repeatedly mentioned
in the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri (Major Raverty's translation, pp. 344, 361, 364, 365). He was the
older of the two sons of Malik Shihab-ud-din, Muhammad, a younger brother of Sultán
Bahá-ud-din Sām, the father of Sultán Shahab-ud-din. The elder Husain, therefore, was
as Chand correctly states, a cousin (bandhava) of the latter. In the Tabaqat, it is
true, it is said that Nasir-ud-din Hussain usurped the throne of his uncle Ala-ud-din
during the latter's temporary captivity at the Court of Sultán Sanjar of Khorasan,
and that he was murdered by his uncle's partisans on the latter's return from captivity
(p. 364). But firstly, this story is contradicted by all other Muhammadan historians, who
pass at once from Ala-ud-din to his son (see Major Raverty's foot-note, p. 364). Secondly,
it is more probable that if there was any usurpation at all, it was made by Nasir-ud-din's
father Muhammad, the younger brother of Ala-ud-din. The three brothers Saif-ud-din
Súri, Baha-ud-din Sām, and Ala-ud-din Husain, succeeded each other on the throne of
Ghor; it is natural, therefore, that during Ala-ud-din's captivity, the fourth brother Shiháb-
ud-din Muhammad, should have occupied or attempted to occupy the throne. The writer
of the Tabaqat must have confused father and son, as he has done also on other occasions
(e. g., with regard to Ziya-ud-din Muhammad). Thirdly the description of Nasir-ud-din
Husain's character: "he had a great passion for women and virgins, and had taken a
number of the handmaids and slave girls of the Sultán's harem" (Tabaqat p. 364), agrees
with Chand's story about his intrigue with Chitrarekha and has evidently a confused re-
collection of it. There can, therefore, be little doubt, that Chand gives substantially the
true account of Husain's fortunes. It may be added, that both the Tabaqat and other
Muhammadan histories give a rather confused relation of an ancestor of this Husain (and
of the Ghori royal family generally) who also bore the name of Husain or Hasan, having
fled to India, and having lived some time at Delhi (see Tabaqat pp. 322, 323, 332). There
is perhaps in this a confused recollection of the flight of Husain to Prithiraj, related
by Chand."
अभी हमने इस कथा के नायक हुसैन का ही पता अपने पाठकों को बतलाया है
किन्तु अन्य जितने योद्धाओं के नाम इस में आये हैं उनका हम पता मुसलमानी तारीखों में
लगा रहे हैं और अन्य विद्वानों से भी उनके विषय में निश्चय कर रहे हैं, अतएव उनके विषय
में फिर निवेदन करेंगे । अभी तो हमारा इतना ही काम है कि इस महाकाव्य को इतना शोध
कर प्रकाशित करादें कि विद्वान इतिहास वेत्ता उसे अवलोकन कर सकें, इत्यलम् ॥