172 Translation of the Toofut ul Kiram, [No. 159. 



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_ T „ , . , ceeded him ; Sultan Ferroz Shah came over, but re- 



6. Jam Babineh 



the second. turned, and coming again took him prisoner. After a 



time when he had experienced his services he conferred the government 

 of Sindh upon him, and he ruled for 15 years and died : he founded the 

 city of Samwi ; some say it was founded by Payeh Bin Oomur, but this is 



7. Jam Tamachi wrong. 7. Jam Tamachi second, his brother, succeed- 



ed, and ruled peaceably for 13 years: then his son, 



8. Jam Sullah-ul-din. 8. Jam Sullah-ul-din, who after settling his own coun- 

 try proceeded to Cutch, and returned victorious : after 1 1 years he died. 



In the praise of Sheikh Himar Jumali (may God's mercy be towards 

 him) it is written, that Jam Junur sent Jam Tamachi and his son Jam 

 Sullah-ul-din to Delhi, and they being released by the Sheikh above- 

 mentioned from Hind returned to Sindh, and overthrew Junur, 

 taking possession of the country ; first the father, and then the son ruled : 

 but this differs with the first account of Meer Mussum. But God knows. 



9. Jam Nizam-ul-din. In short, after Sullah-ul-din, Jam Nizam-ul-din 

 succeeded to the government, and released his uncles. 



The Editors at first hesitated to publish this article, fearing that their 

 readers might consider it almost a reprint, or an amplification of the 

 former paper by the same author, •' On the early history of Scinde from 

 the ' Chuch Namah,' &c," as it in fact at first sight appears to be. But 

 Lieut. Postans himself in his introduction has, they conceive, assigned 

 the best reason why it should not, even at the risk of some repetition, re- 

 main unpublished, namely, that " the author of the Toofut ul K(ram 

 has collected his materials from the best authorities." And this is of 

 more importance than it at first sight appears to be, for it implies that 

 the author, who like our own early chroniclers was living in part of the 

 times of his own history, was like them also near enough to the epochs 

 embraced in it to exercise his discretion in the choice of the matters to 

 be chronicled ; and this doubtless founded on research amongst docu- 

 ments, and histories, and men now long passed away and numbered with 



