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city of Srinugger. Soon after this, Syud Khan with an army of 

 Kashgurries, and Mirza Hyder with 14,000 horse invaded Cashmere 

 by the Lar Pergunnah ; the Cashmeries being unable to give battle, 

 took to the hills, but during the winter made some head against the 

 invaders ; and although in one affair alone they lost 1,600 men, they 

 succeeded in bringing them to terms. It was stipulated that Sikunder 

 Khan Kashgurrie should marry a daughter of the exiled king 

 Mahomed Shah who was himself married to a sister of Kajee 

 Chukk, who was thus uncle to that Princess : upon this the Kash- 

 gurries left the country. 



The king Mahomed Shah died in exile in the year H. 944, 

 and was nominally succeeded, successively, by his eldest son 

 Shums-ood-deen Shah, who reigned for one year, (A. D. 1537,) 

 and by his second son Ismaiui Shah who married a daughter 

 of Kajee Chukk, the actual ruler of the country. At length 

 Kajee Chukk, feeling jealous of the Magreys, made war on them, 

 but being worsted, was forced to take to the mountains : the return 

 of Eeygie Chukk however from Jummoo soon enabled him again 

 to take the field : a general rally of the Chukks ensued, which led 

 to the defeat and dispersion of the Magreys, whose power being 

 thus effectually broken, Kajee Chukk ruled in peace for three 

 years, and, as far as the distracted state of the country admitted, 

 turned his attention to its improvement and to the administration 

 of justice. It was not, however, fated that he should longer retain 

 the throne he had so hardly won. 



A. D. 1540. — In the year of Hejira 947, his kinsman Eeygie 

 Chukk and Abdal Magrey, entering into an alliance, called in 

 the aid of Mirza Hyder, a foster brother and faithful adherent of 

 the Emperor Humaioon (A. D. 1540). That chief, under the stipula- 

 tion he should enjoy the real powers of sovereign, consented to set 

 up Tarkh Shah, a boy, son of the usurper Putteh Shah, (see 

 page 41G et seq ) asking of Cashmere ; and advanced with a con- 

 siderable army. Kajee Chukk being alarmed, entered into an 

 alliance with Shere Khan* Affghan, then in rebellion against 

 Humaioon, and gave him his niece (a daughter of Mahomed Shah) in 

 marriage. 



(* Afterwards Shere Shah.) 



