Tak / Takshak

Nagavanshi dynasty of north-west India — Wajihu-l Mulk Tak, 11th century CE

The Tak (Takshak / Takka) clan is one of the great Nagavanshi dynasties of north-west India, ruling the Asikni (Chenab) basin at the time of the Ghaznavid invasions. Wajihu-l Mulk Tak, mentioned alongside the Varahas in the eleventh-century Persian chronicles, is one of the few named Tak rulers to survive in the textual record.

Sources

• Al-Utbi, Tarikh-i Yamini
• Al-Biruni, Kitāb al-Hind
• Bhatia, “Bull/Horseman Coins of the Shahis” (1973)