SOMNATH TEMPLE DESTROYED his own son Wasan was to be sent instead. Wasan came, and Devaiyat was ordered to kill him, which he did. But he swore vengeance on the Viceroy, and on the occasion of his daughter JasaPs marriage his Ahers fell upon the Viceroy and his men and killed them all. Ra Noghan then sat on the throne of which he had been dispossessed for ten years. Devaiyat's daughter Jasal was then married with much pomp, and went to Sind with her husband. There a certain chief named Hamir Sumro endeavoured to seize her and marry her, and on her sending a message to Noghan, the latter marched on Sind and defeated Hamir Sumro, in this manner repaying to some extent all that Devaiyat and the Ahers had done for him while he had been in hiding. During this period nothing is known as to what the Jethwas and Walas were doing in Saurashtra. Their bards record long lists of names of rulers of the two tribes, but these are not at all reliable, and supply the only information to be gathered concerning the two races. In A.D. 1025 took place one of the most stirring events in the whole history of Kathiawad, for Mahmud of Ghazni attacked and completely destroyed the temple of Somnath at Prabhas Patan, and in so doing created one of the great landmarks of Indian history. Of the wonderful Temple of the Moon we are so fortunate as to possess such records that to make a mental construction of the same or to understand the grandeur and greatness attached to it we are not obliged to draw extensively on the imagi- nation. We have been left, indeed, the account of an eye-witness, for the great Arab commentator, Al Biruni, visited Somnath when in India and placed on record all he saw with much exactitude of detail. Al Biruni was born near Khiva in A.D. 973, and died about 1031. He made several tours in India, and devoted 59