174 H. G. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [No. 3, 
to counteract the designs of Malik Sher IGian in going to the presence 
of Mangu Ka’an, the supreme ruler of the Mughal empire. With the 
assistance of Malik Shams-ud-Din, Muhammad, the Kurat, who held 
the fief of Hirat, and other parts adjacent, as a vassal of the Mnghals— 
and heavy was their yoke—and through him, he tendered allegiance 
to Hulaku Khan, 60 then in f-ran-Zannn on the part of his brother 
Mangu Ka’an, and requested that a Shahnah or Commissioner should 
be sent to l/chchh. This was done, and the Nii-in, Sail, or Salin, also 
written Sari, 61 was sent thither at the head of a body of Mu gh al troops 
in 654 A. H. (1256 A. D.). 
In 655 H. (1257 A. D.) 63 Malik Tzz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, 
who, with the troops of U'chohh and Multan, 63 was then on the banks of 
the Biah, advanced up the do-dbah in order to effect a junction with 
other disaffected Maliks of the Dilili kingdom. 64 Having united, they 
pushed on to Mansur-pur, Kuhram, and Samanah, their object being to 
seize upon Dilili if they could. 66 The Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, who had 
again regained the greatest power in the state, moved against them at 
6° See preceding note, and “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri,” pages 786 and 860. 
61 In this word, as in many others, the letters ‘ r’ and ‘l’ are interchangeable. 
62 According to some other writers, in the preceding year. 
63 The reason why Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan was able to hold 
these places, although at the same time in open rebellion against his sovereign, the 
Sultan of Dihli, was, because Lf ohch h and Multan, and their dependencies, chiefly, lay 
%vest of the Biah and Hakra, and between the latter and the Ab-i-Sind or Indus, which 
then flowed much nearer to Multan, and farther west and beyond the Rawi and 
Chin-ab. Both strongholds, likewise, lay in the same do-dbah or delta, the Sind- 
Sagar Do-abah, and this rendered them liable to attack from the Mughals coming 
downwards from the direction of the Koh-i-Jud, Namak-Sar, or Salt Range, in the 
same do-dbah, which was in the possession of the Mu gh als. The fact that Malik 
Hasan, the Karlugh, evacuated Multan immediately on the Mughals approaching the 
banks of the Ab-i-Sind to attack U'chchh in 643 H., and retired precipitately into 
Sind, to Siw-istan and the sea coast, confirms this. To do so, he did not take boat, 
on the Ab-i-Sind, or he might have been captured, but he embarked on the Biah or 
Sind Rud, below the confluence of the three other rivers of the Panj-ab with it, and 
from it got into the Hakra or Wahindah, and by it reached the neighbourhood of 
Bakhar, and subsequently Lower Sind. 
When Abu-1-Fazl wrote, Multan was in the Bari Do-abah, and U'chchh in the 
district known as Berun-i-Panj-Nad, or Extra Panj-Ab or Panch Nad, that is, lying 
on either side of the united five rivers below their junction. 
64 Including Malik Kutlugh Khan, who had married the mother of Sultan Nasir- 
ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, who had rebelled against that Sultan in 653 H. (1255 A. D), 
and coined money in his own name, hence he is not allowed to appear in the list of 
the Sultan’s Maliks He, too, was a Turk , not a “ Pathan.” See “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri ’* 
pages 673 and 703. Also the Society’s “Transactions,” for 1889, page 226. 
66 See “ T a h a kat-i-Nasiri,” page 785. 
