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1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
question, was under the charge of the Khwajah (Eunuch) Salih, the 
Kot-wal, who was acting as the Deputy of the feudatory of the district, 
Mu-ayyid-ud-Din, Hindu Khan, the Treasurer of the Dilili kingdom. 6 
At this period, Multan and its territory was in the possession of Malik 
Saif-ud-Diu, Hasan, the Karl u gh , Karlugh, Karluk, or Karluk Turk, who 
was not a vassal of the Dihli kingdom, 7 and who had lately been dispos¬ 
sessed of his own territories beyond the Indus by the Mughals, and had 
recently seized upon Multan. 
In due course the Nu-in Mangutah, reached the banks of the Sind 
near l/chchh—it must have been about the middle of October of that 
year, as the news reached Dihli in the following month, in Rajab—and 
Malik Hasan, the Karlugh, speedily abandoned Multan, and, embarking 
on the A'b-i Sind, started down that river in order to gain Sindu-stan, 
as the city of Siw-istan and its territory, since known as Sihwan, was 
then called, to gain the port of Dewal or Debal (‘6’ and ’ being in¬ 
terchangeable) on the sea coast of Sind. 8 
6 See under “ Shamsiah Maliks,” no. ix, page 744 of the “Tabakat” Transla¬ 
tion, and also page 809. There it says the Mn gli als “invested the fortress of 
U' chch h, which is one of the famous strongholds of the country of Sind, and the 
territory of Mansurah” ; and, that, “Within that fortress, a Khwajah-Sarae 
[Eunuch], one of the servants of Malik Taj-ud-Din, Abu-Bikr, named Muklilis-nd- 
Din, was the Kot-wal Bak [Seneschal], and a slave of Kabh* Khan, Ak-Sunkar, by 
name, was the Amir-i-Dad [Lord Justiciary]. 
7 He was independent, and coined money in his own name. At the period 
referred to, after having previously submitted to the Mughals, he found their yoke 
so unbearable that he abandoned Ghaznih, Karman, and the territory north of, and 
including, the Koh-i-Jud or Salt Range, and occupied Multan. Some of the coins of 
this same Karlugh Malik have recently been found near the village of Chittah in that 
very Koh-i-Jud. The tribe of Karlugh, Karlugh, Karluk, or Karluk Turks gave 
name to the tract of country in the Panj-ab, miscalled by us “Hazara” but in 
history, called the country or district of the Hazarah-i-Karlugh, that is, where 
the ming , or hazdrah , or legion, consisting of Karlugh Turks, was located when the 
Khwarazm Shahs dominated over those parts. See the Society’s “Transactions” 
for November, 1889, where the coins of Saif-ud-Din, Hasan, the Karlugh, are noticed 
under the designation of “ Qurlagh.” In Thomas’s “ Puthdn Kings of Behli,” he is 
called “a rebel” at page 97, but, as he was never subject to the Dihli rulers, he 
was not a rebel. lie was a feudatory under the Khwarazm Shahs who held those 
parts, and, after their fall, had to submit to the Mughals. More respecting him and 
his son will be found in my Tabakat-i-Nasiri. See notes on page 175, and page 177. 
His son, Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Muhammad, was neither “ a powerful monarch,” nor 
did he ever hold dominions in Sind. See “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri,” pages 781, 859, 877, 
and 1154. 
8 If Multan had then another broad and unfordable river immediately on its 
west side, as the Chin-ab now flows, Malik Hasan would scarcely have needed to 
evacuato Multan, and probably would not have done so, and, certainly, not with 
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