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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
a grand and imposing boundary. This mausoleum is 
at Toghlukabad, about ten miles from Shahjehanabad, 
which is visible from it. 
The divisions in the imperial cabinet at Delhi, 
encouraged the Jagatay emperor in his resolution of 
subduing India : he accordingly reached the banks of 
the Indus on the twelfth of Mohurrum, in the year of 
the Hegira 801, answering to the twelfth of September 
1398 of the Christian era. Having desolated the coun- 
tries through which he passed and deluged their land 
with blood, he crossed the river with an army of two 
hundred thousand men, marched along its banks, and 
encamped before the strong fort and town of Toolumba. 
He immediately laid the inhabitants under contribu- 
tion ; and while they were collecting the sum imposed, 
stated to have been half a million sterling, a report 
was made to the invader that there was a scarcity of 
provisions in his camp. Orders were instantly given 
that grain should be seized wherever it could be 
found. In the execution of this cruel order, the Jaga- 
tay soldiers began to plunder the houses of the citi- 
zens, who, resenting the outrage, were indiscriminately 
massacred. Not staying to besiege the fort of Too- 
lumba, having obtained all the treasure of the town, 
the conqueror proceeded to a neighbouring city, where 
finding more grain than was sufficient for the con- 
sumption of his army, he commanded the surplus to 
be burnt. 
He was here joined by his grandson, the Mirza 
Peer Mohammed, who was reduced to such dis- 
tress in the city of Moultan, into which he had 
been obliged to withdraw his army during the rains. 
