1(50 H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries . [No. 3, 
“ In this manner used he to show such-like determination on this 
expedition, and such lion-heartedness, and was wont to stimulate the 
Sultan and Maliks to repel the infidel Mughals, until Monday, the 25th 
of the month Sha’ban, 613 H. (about the last week in January, 1246 
A. D.), when intimation reached the royal camp that the army of infidel 
Mughals had raised the investment of Uchchh. The cause of it was, 
that, on reaching the vicinity of the river Biah, Ulugh Khan i-A’zam 
appointed couriers, and directed so that they wrote letters from the 
sublime presence to the garrison of the fort of Uchohh, and announced 
to them the approach of the royal standards, the vast number of the 
array and elephants, the host of cavalry with the army, and the courage 
of the soldiery in attendance at the august stirrup, and despatched them 
towards the fortress of Uohchh. A division of the army was moved on 
in front, to act as a reconnoitring force and form the advanced guard. 
“ When the couriers reached the vicinity of Uchchh, 13 a few of 
these letters fell into the hands of the host of the accursed, 14 and some 
reached the people of the fortress. On the drum of joy being beaten in 
the fort, and the subject of the letters, the advance of the victorious 
army, and approach of the royal standards, becoming manifest to the 
accursed Mangiitah, and the cavalry of the advanced guard approaching 
the banks of the river Biah of Labor, near to the frontiers of the terri¬ 
tory of Sind, fear and terror became manifest in the heart of the Mughal 
[leader]. 
“ When Mangiitah became aware of the advance of this great army,” 
the author continues, “ and that it moved towards the river Biah, 15 near 
the skirts of the mountains, and from thence, in the same manner, was 
inarching downward along the banks of that river, 16 he made inquiry of 
caught in a trap and annihilated. Snch being the case, the Mughals retired by three 
divisions, up the Sind-Sagar Do-abah by the route they had come, keeping close to 
the east bank, before any of the Dihli troops, beyond the detachment referred to, 
had crossed the Rawi. 
13 It is probable, nay, almost certain, that these couriers came down the right 
bank of the Biah the whole way, leaving the great army when it crossed the Biah and 
the Rawah or Rawi on the way to Labor. A glance at the map indicating the 
former course of the Biah and the other rivers will show why they did so. 
14 The author had good reason for calling the Mughals “ accursed.” They had 
ruined and depopulated his native country and the parts adjacent, the tracts between 
Hirat and Kabul and Ghaznin, exceedingly populous and flourishing before the 
invasion of the Mughals, from whose devastations they have not recovered to this 
day. 
13 Thus showing that it still flowed in its old bed; for, after it left it, it lost its 
name, and that was only in the last century. 
16 Below the junction with the others previously mentioned as uniting with it 
near Multan to the south. 
