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another revolt, having for its object the restoration to the throne of 

 Hubbeeb Khan, in which the latter was killed by an elephant. 



After this, his possession of the throne was again disturbed by a 

 nephew of Mirza Hyder, who invaded Cashmere with an army 

 of 12,000 Moguls from Kashgur. The Cashmere army headed by 

 the king in person advanced to Lohar Kote to meet them : upon the 

 eve of battle Gazie Khan promised an ashrafee (about 16 Es.) 

 for every head of an enemy : A battle ensued in which the king 

 was completely victorious, and 7,000 heads of the enemy were pre- 

 sented to him after the engagement : he is said to have exceeded 

 his promise and to have disbursed two ashrafees per head. 



A. D. 1557. — This prince seems to have been a just, but a very 

 stern ruler, and it is related of him that he put to death his own son 

 for having, in a fit of passion, killed his uncle, who had carried him an 

 order from the king his father to appear at Court, which the fiery 

 youth resented ; he is said however to have exhibited remorse so 

 far that he ever afterwards turned away his head when he happened 

 to pass near the spot of execution. This able and energetic prince 

 was also a poet and portioned out his time like our own Alfred. 

 After reigning 9 years and 9 months, feeling the approach of old 

 age, he abdicated the throne in favour of his second brother 

 Hussain Khan, (H. 970,) A. D. 1562, who reigned in peace for 

 five years ; after which period however his (bastard) brother 

 Sushkur Khan rebelled, and a battle took place at Kuspa 

 (thus a second time the scene of a fierce engagement) in which the 

 rebel chief was wounded and his army dispersed. Shortly after this 

 event the king's little son Ibrahim Khan died of the small-pox, 

 and the king himself was so struck with grief that he pined away 

 and, five months afterwards, died. Hussain Shah (A. D. 1570) 

 was succeeded by the third brother Allie Shah. At this time 

 the descendants of Zein-ul-ab-ood-deen made some head and 

 advanced as far as Neosherah, upon which Allie Shah des- 

 patched his nephew Lohur Khan with 5,000 horse against them, 

 who defeated them by a stratagem. The king also put down a 

 rebellion in Kishtewar. During this king's reign, there was a great 

 famine which lasted for three years, arising from excessive falls of 

 snow ; during the two first years of this calamity the king expended 



