CHAPTER VI (A.D. 1026-1415) MAHMUD of Ghazni does not appear to have met with resistance in Saurashtra, excepting at Prabhas Patan, which was at the time of the sack in the hands of the Solankis of Anhilwad. We find no record of any resistance being offered by the Chudasamas of Wanthali, who were predominant in the peninsula. The Mahomedans can- not have wished for further fighting, especially since they were taking so much loot back to Ghazni with them, and perhaps Ra Noghan's hostility to the Anhilwad Rajas caused him to look on at the sack of Somnath with grim satisfaction. In addition he may have considered discre- tion to be the better part of valour, for terror of the Musalman invaders must have spread far and wide. Ra Khengar I succeeded his father on the latter's death in A.D. 1044, and enjoyed a reign of twenty-three years, undisturbed by fighting. His son, Ra Noghan II, followed him in power in A.D. 1067, and ruled with vary- ing fortune for twenty-one years. He suffered defeat at the hands of his hereditary foe, Siddha Raj, King of Anhilwad, and was altogether a truculent personage. Of his four sons* the youngest, Ra Khengar II, was appointed to succeed him on his promising to slay Harraj of Umeta; to destroy the fort of Bhoira, near Jasdan; to break down the gate of Anhilwad ; and to split the cheeks of a charan named Mesan, who had spoken disrespectfully of him. Khengar at his father's deathbed undertook to perform these tasks, and Ra Noghan died happy in A.D. 1098. 65 E