Qutubuddin forces secured a decisive victory and sacked Anhilwara, thereby avenging the defeat of his master Muhammad of Ghor at the same site two decades earlier.

[1] During the last decade of the twelfth century, Muhammad of Ghor after his watershed victory in the Second Battle of Tarain, left his viceory Qutubuddin Aibak in charge of his conquests east of the river Indus.

[10] According to Hasan Nizami, Aibak forces initially were scrupled to act against the dictates of geography and fight an open-field combat, fearing the disastrous fate of Muhammad of Ghor at the same place in 1178.

In the ensuring combat, which commenced from early morning and concluded by the afternoon, the Rajput host was vanquished with great slaughter owing to the superior mobility of the Ghurid cavalry despite being outnumbered.

[13] Chronicler Hasan Nizami with his typical rhetorical flourish states that 50,000 "infidels were despatched to hell by the sword of Islam" and another 20,000 were taken as slaves, while Ferishta placed the number of slains at 15,000.

Nizami laconically states that Aibak after conquering Naharwal dispensed special robe of honour on his nobles and returned to Ajmer after receiving encomium from Muhammad of Ghor about his campaign.