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his followers had to fight for their lives, and came to the territory of 

 the Magasis, the chief (mirzd) of whom received him hospitably. 

 The chief town of the Chandis is Chandia (also called Dehi Kot, 

 Long. 67° 34, Lat. 27° 38), and the district of the Magasis, an un- 

 important Baluchi tribe, lies north of Chandia. Dara then direct- 

 ed his march towards Dadar (Long. 67° 41' ; Lat. 29° 26'), the Afghan 

 chief of which, Malik Jiwan, lay under obligations to the prince. 

 At Dadar, a town which is notoriously the hottest inhabited place 

 on earth, Dara wished to rest from the fatigues of the journey. 

 Malik Jiwan sent his headman Ayyiib to receive him, and when the 

 prince entered the territory of Dadar, he arrived himself, and 

 took him to the town. Before they had entered Dadar, Dara's 

 wife died. The corpse was taken to Malik Jiwan 's residence, but 

 as it had been her dying wish to be buried in Hindustani soil, Dara, 

 " with a disregard of circumstances that looks like infatuation," sent 

 away Khwajah Ma'qiil and the faithful Gul Muhammad — Firuz i 

 Mewati had left him at Bhakkav — with seventy horse to escort the 

 coffin to Lahor, where the princess was buried in the house of the 

 revered Miyan Mir, whose disciple Dara professed to be. 



After staying several days at Dadar, Dara, on the 29th Ramazan 

 1069 A. H. (1 1th June, 1659, A. D.)left Malik Jiwan, and proceeded 

 to Qandahar. No sooner had he gone than Malik Jiwan — Khafi 

 Khan says, his brother — fell on Dara, made him and his son 

 prisoners, and sent reports of his doings to Bahadur Khan and 

 Rajah Jai Singh, who had followed Dara beyond the Indus, and to 

 Baqir Khan, Faujdar of Bhakkar. Baqir immediately despatched 

 a courier to Aurangzib at Dihli. 



The name of the treacherous chief of Dadar, Malik Jiwan (cjXo 

 e^-Jj^) has perhaps been the occasion of the geographical errors into 

 which European historians have fallen. It looks as if Elphinstone, 

 or the author whose work he used, read ^UU mdlik, ' owner,' instead 

 of v£ll*> malih ; and as if 'jiwan had been arbitrarily changed to Jun, 

 in order to suit the word owner. But the name of the district and 

 town in Eastern Sindh to which Elphinstone refers, is <i)y^ Jon, not 

 Jiun. Jon, like TJ'ch, Daibal, T'hat'hah, and other towns of the 

 shifting Indus Delta, is now an unimportant place between T'hat'hah 

 and Amrkot ; at the time of Humayun it was renowned for its 



