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who liad gone to the presence of Mangu Ka’an, and had been honourably 
received, were also permitted to return ; and the latter was allowed to 
hold the province of Labor, independent of Dihli, as a vassal of the 
Mnglials, but he did not long retain it. 
It is stated in another history 68 , that, after settling the affairs of 
ITchehh and Multan, Sail marched towards Labor, which was then in 
the possession of Kuret Khan, or Kliwan as it is written in the original, 
and that Sail entered into an accommodation with this person, on the 
payment of 30,000 dinars , 30 kharwdrs of soft fabrics, and 100 captives ; 
and that, after this, the Kurat Malik of Hirat and Ghur, Shams-ud-Din, 
Muhammad, who, as the vassal of the Mu gli al s, had to accompany the 
Nu-in with his contingent and was probably quite weary of acting against 
his co-religionists on the side of the Mughal infidels, left the Nu-in, 
Sail, and retired towards Ghur. 
This person, Kuret Khan, who was in possession of Labor, does not 
appear, however, to have been a feudatory of the Dihli kingdom ; 69 and 
the city of Labor was in ruins, or in a very ruinous state, it having been 
sacked and depopulated and destroyed by the Mu glial s in 639 H. (1211- 
42 A. D.). After that time, the ruins were occupied by the Khokhars, 
a powerful Jat tribe. These people have always been mistaken for 
Gakhars (by those who knew no difference between them), and the 
Gakliars for Khokhars. 
A great army was assembled at the capital for the purpose of mov¬ 
ing against the Mu gh al invaders and the traitor, Malik Tzz-ud-Din, 
Balban, but serious disturbances broke out in the hill tracts of Mewat 
and parts adjacent, that had first to be quelled. Respecting this, the 
author of the “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri ” says, at page 850 : “ Nevertheless, 
it was impossible to chastize that sedition by reason of anxiety conse¬ 
quent on the appearance of the Mu gh al army, which continued to harass 
the frontier tracts of the dominions of Islam, namely, the territory of 
Sind, Labor, and the line of the Biah ; 6 ° until, at this period, emissaries 
of Khurasan, coming from the side of ’Irak, from Hulaii [or Hulaku], 
the Mu gh al, had arrived in the neighbourhood of the capital.” 
These emissaries had not come on Hulaku’s part, but respecting a 
matrimonial alliance mentioned at page 859 of the “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri.” 
Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Muhammad, who then ruled over the khittah of 
63 “ The Mujmal-i-Fasih-i ” 
69 There is a Malik named Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Kuret Khan, among the feuda- 
tories of Dihli, but he had never been in charge of L&hor according to the “ Tabakat- 
i-Nasiri.” See page 756. 
69 Had the Biah been dry, they could easily have passed the frontier, but it was 
an unfordable river in the direction here referred to. 
