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behind it but a little dust. It mattered not where the “dog” had fled 
to, whether he were drowned in the river or hiding in a cave in the 
hills; in any case, the wazlr had bound himself to produce the rebel, 
and produce him he must He ( Bahadur Shah) claimed the man from 
him. Overwhelmed with these fierce reproaches, Mun‘im Khan left the 
council-chamber with hanging head and dejected mien. His death, 
which followed soon after, is partly attributed to the untoward result 
of the campaign against the Crura. 1 
On the 2*2nd Shawwal, 1122 (13th December, 1710) orders were 
sent to the Rajas of Sirlnagar (that is, Garhval) and Nahan 2 to 
seize the Guru wherever they found him. The escape had been made 
into, or through, Nahan territory. That Raja’s crime was therefore 
the more patent, and unfortunately for him, his chief town was only 
a few miles away, and to it Hamid Khan was sent to seize him. A few 
days afterwards (2nd Zu,l Ka‘dh, 1122 = 22nd December, 1710), that 
noble returned bringing Bhfip Pargash, the son of Hari Pargash, the 
ruler of Nahan. He was kept in confinement, and thirty or more men 
who had been sent by his mother to plead for his release, were exe¬ 
cuted (4th Safar, 1123 = 23rd March, 1711). Finally, he was put into 
the iron cage constructed for the reception of the false Guru, and 
forwarded to Dihli, where he was kept a prisoner in Salimgarh until, 
during the confusion in Jahandar’s time, he was set at liberty. Fath 
Sbggh, of Sirlnagar, was not so easily accessible. He was prudent 
enough to make his peace by sending presents (20th Muharram, 1123 
= 8th March, 1711), but he could not be seized. Although the principal 
object of the campaign, the capture of the Guru, was not attained, it 
was not altogether fruitless, for treasure amounting to about twenty 
lakhs in rupees and asharfls (gold coins) was recovered, by digging up 
the whole surface of the ground in Lohgarh, the Guru’s fort (25th 
Shawwal. 1122 = 16th December, 1710). 3 * S 
It will conduce to clearness if, discarding a strict chronological 
order, we here carry the story of the Sikh revolt up to Bahadur Shah’s 
death and the reign of Jahandar Shah, leaving the final overthrow and 
capture of the Guru in Farrukh Siyar’s reign, to be related hereafter. 
To resume, then:—On the 22nd Zu,l Ka‘dh, 1122 (11th January, 1711) 
1 Warid, 119 b, 120 a. 
2 These are generally styled by the Muhammadan writers Barfl Raja, or Snowy 
Kings. For instance, in Khafi Khan, II, 671, and Ma,dsiru-l-Umard, III, 673. 
Khushal Cand, Nddiru-z-Zamdnl (B. Museum, Addl. No. 24,027, fol. 214 b.) tells 
us that the name was given because the Nahan Raja used to send boatloads of 
ice (colloquially barf) as presents to the Emperors and nobles of Dihli. 
S Kamwar lOian, 83, 87, Warid, 120 b. 
