Which country is known as golden bird?

Answer 1

In the medieval period, before the Muslim invasions started in India and the founding of the first Muslim dynasty, the Ghaznavids, in Delhi (following the death of the Hindu king Prithvi Raj Chauhan of the Chahamana dynasty in 1092 AD after numerous previous attempts at invasion had failed), India had already been a fabulously rich and prosperous civilization for more than three millenia. It was already known as the Golden Bird in the ancient world and was called such by foreign travelers who visited it during latter times. Unfortunately however, it was this reputation that had drawn foreign invaders to India starting from the assyrian queen Semiramis, to the Greek Alexander, the huns and finally the Muslim afghans and mongols. It was finally in the eleventh century that north western India succumbed to successive Muslim invasions when the last Hindu king in Delhi, Prithvi raj Chauhan was defeated in battle at Panipat. Even though there were frequent reversals of fortune from then on, Muslims dynasties were there to stay in India for the next several centuries.