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various places along its bank, [Canopus rose above the horizon,] tbe 

 stream decreased, and he was thus enabled to cross with the whole 

 of his forces at the ford of Baghpat, after which he encamped in the 

 plain of Jiid.* 



Sultan lluknuddin Ibrahim then issued forth from the city with 

 the royal insignia, attended by such force as he still had with him, 

 and pitched his camp opposite to Sultan 'Alauddin's, with the inten- 

 tion of bringing on an early engagement. After night had came on, 

 however, the entire left wing of Sultan Ruknuddin's army having 

 mounted their horses about midnight, a tremendous uproar arose, and 

 they all went bodily over to Sultan 'Alauddin. Sultan Ruknuddin 

 was thus rendered utterly powerless, but towards the close of the 

 night they managed to open the Badaon gate ; and he having taken 

 some gold tankahs out of the treasury, and a few horses out of the 

 stable, placed his mother and other females of his household in front, 

 and issuing forth under cover of the darkness from the Grhaznin gate, 

 took the road to Multan. Malik Qutbuddin 'Alawi together with his 

 children and Malik Ahmad Chap also abandoned their homes, and 

 accompanied Malikah Jahan and Sultan Ruknuddin towards Multan. 



Next day Sultan 'Alauddin set out with regal pomp and splen- 

 dour, and entered the plain of Siri (c5>^°,) where he alighted, and the 

 sovereignty was there delivered over to him. He also pitched his camp 

 at Siri, and the cliwans, the custodians of the elephants with the animals 

 in their charge, the governors (kotwdlsj with the keys of their 

 forts, the justices and judges, and all the other persons of note and 

 respectability in the city waited upon him ; whereupon the earth 

 assumed a totally different aspect, and a state of affairs altogether 

 new arose throughout the world. "By the immensity of his wealth, 

 and the vast number of his adherents, no matter whether an indivi- 

 dual (here and there) took the oath of allegiance to him or not, the 

 public prayers were offered in his behalf, and the coinage of the mint 

 was struck in his name. 



'* Baghpat (oo^b) lies north of Dihli on the Jamnah, Opposite to it on the 

 right side, our maps give a place Joondhpur, which appears to be the Judh 

 (&d+z» or with a nasal n, <>jj^) mentioned by Barani. For Baghpat. the 

 Society's Edition, p. 246, 1. 2 has A^jI^ Kat'h (?). Regarding Siri, vide Journal 

 A. S. Bengal for 1847, p. 974 ; but in the whole article Siri is wrongly spelt 

 Secree, for Seeree ; also J. A. S. B. 1866, p. 199. 



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