vijaya sambhava the great

912-966, of gosthAna (khotan/ hotan/ oDDiyAna pITha), who:

  • “placed a wall of steel in the path of the three Qarakhanid Sultans: Abd al Karim, Musa Bughra Khan and Suleyman Arslan Khan and defeated each one of them on multiple occasions in fierce cavalry engagements, even though he was entirely cut off from receiving aid from the Hindu rulers of Gandhara and Kashmir. He also routed the Moslem army from Bokhara, which was led by the Arab chief Ahmed ibn Ismail. Subsequently he defeated another Arab army of Abd al-Malik-I from Bokhara.” [MT]
  • builder of many temples (of which fragmentary ruins still survive) [MT]