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ieath. In A. D. 1304, during the reign of Ala-uddin, a second army of 

 4,000 Mogul horse burst into the Punjab and plundered the country 

 as far as Amroha, in Eohilkhand, but they were defeated with great 

 slaughter by Tughlak Khan, who, as a reward for his services, was 

 appointed Governor of the Punjab, In the following year a third 

 Mogul Army of 57,000 horse invaded India and ravaged Multan ; but 

 this army was also defeated by Tughlak with such tremendous slaugh- 

 ter, that it is said only 3,000 prisoners survived the defeat. Towards 

 the end of the same year, a fourth invasion of Moguls was driven back 

 by the same able commander, whose very name at last inspired such 

 terror amongst the Moguls, that the women made use of it to quiet 

 their children, and whenever a man showed any alarm, his companions 

 would ask, " Why do you start ? Have you seen Tughlak ?" From 

 A. D. 1305 to 1321, Ghazi Beg Tughlak was Governor of the Punjab, 

 residing sometimes at Lahore, and sometimes at Depalpur and Multan. 

 In the fort of Multan he built a magnificent tomb for himself, which 

 exists to this day under the title of Eokn-i-alam, a name derived from 

 Eukn-uddin, a very holy Saint of those days, the son of Baha-uddin 

 Zakaria, more commonly called Bahawal Hak. The people of Multan 

 say that Muhammad presented the tomb to Eukn-uddin to secure his 

 silence in the matter of his father's death ; but agreeably to another 

 version, Tughlak himself had incurred the displeasure of Eukn-uddin 

 by an attempt to carry off one of his women. The angry Saint 

 prophesied that he would never reach Delhi, and accordingly he was 

 killed near Tilpat just as he was about to enter Delhi. There may, 

 perhaps, be some truth in this tradition, as we learn from Ibn Batuta* 

 that Eukn-uddin was the most noted Saint in India, and that his fame 

 had extended even to Alexandria. Under any circumstances, it was 

 politic to conciliate the good- will of this influential personage, and the 

 worthy Saint himself was no doubt highly gratified with the magni- 

 ficence of the gift. A similar story is current at Delhi, but the Saint 

 of this tradition is the celebrated Nizam-uddin Auliya. The holy man 

 had given some offence to Tughlak, who threatened to punish him 

 when he returned to Delhi. "He will never return to Delhi," said 

 the prophetic Saint when the threat was repeated to him. Mzam- 

 uddin died a few years afterwards, and his tomb was erected at the 



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* Travels, pp. 7—101. 





