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Mangutali having made his preparations, proceeded to invest 
U'ohohh. The author of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri says, that he first destroyed 
the environs and neighbourhood round about the city. “ The people 
of the fortress put forth the utmost exertions and diligence, and used 
immense endeavours in defending the place, and despatched great num¬ 
bers of the Mughals to hell.” Having failed in all their endeavours to 
take the place, and, in the last assault, having lost one of their principal 
leaders, and hearing of the near approach of the forces of the Dihli 
kingdom under Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud Shah, in person, they began 
to give up hopes of taking the fortress. To continue in the words of 
the author: “ When the sublime standards reached the banks of the 
river Biah, the army moved along its banks 9 towards ITchohh, as has 
been previously related and recorded. On the Mughal forces becoming 
aware of the advance of the forces of Islam, and the vanguard of the 
warriors of the faith having reached within a short distance of the 
territory [dependent on ITchchh], they did not possess the power of 
withstanding them. They retired disappointed from before the fortress 
of Uchchh, and went away; and that stronghold, through the power of 
the sovereign of Islam, and the Divine aid, remained safe from the 
wickedness of those accursed ones.” 
This detailed account of the investment of U'ohohh is kept by the 
author for the last part of the Tabakat, but he also refers to the event in 
two earlier passages. Under the reign of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud 
Shah, page 667, he says : “ In the month of Rajab of this same year, 
news was received from the upper provinces, of an army of infidel 
Mughals having advanced towards Uchohh, of which force the accursed 
Mangutali was the leader. Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud Shah, for the 
such precipitation as he used on the occasion in question. At that period, however, 
no river intervened between Multan and the A'b-i-Sind or Indus, which was almost as 
close to it then as the Chin-ab is now, and, consequently, Malik Hasan’s retreat 
might have been cut off. He, accordingly, embarked on the combined rivers Chin- 
ab (including the Bihat) and Rawi, which then ran north and east of Multan, and 
united with the Biah some miles farther south, and so, placing a river between him¬ 
self and the Mughals, he was enabled to get down into Sind, without danger of 
molestation, by the Biah and Hakra, or Wahindah, into Lar, or Debal. 
What afterwards became of him has never been mentioned in history, and it is 
not improbable that he may have reached the Dakhan, and have taken service there, 
and there ended his days. An account of the Karluglx or Karlugh Turks will be 
found in my “ Translation of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri,” note to page 877, and note to 
page 1130. 
9 This was after the combined Bihat, Chin-ab, and Rawi had united with it, 
and below the point of junction indicated in the map showing the ancient courses of 
these rivers at the period in question whioli will be given later on. 
