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1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
Banian in the Kob-i-Jud, 61 was desirous of giving a daughter of his in 
marriage to the son of the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, and an agent had been 
sent to him by the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam agreeing to his request. As 
Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Muhammad, was a vassal of the Mughals, at that 
time, and as Hulaku Khan, the ruler of I'-ran Zamin on behalf of 
his brother, the Great Ka’an, Mangu, was therefore the Malik’s imme¬ 
diate superior, the Malik had deemed it necessary to send the agent of 
the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam to Hulaku Khan to obtain his sanction for 
the proposed alliance. It was this Karl u gh emissary who had arrived 
along with the agent of the Ulugh Khan at this juncture, and with him 
had come a Mu gh al Shahnah, or Commissioner, resident in Malik Nasir- 
ud-Din, Muhammad’s territory, probably to spy out the nakedness of 
the land. Advantage was taken of the arrival of these emissaries, who 
were detained for a time at some distance from the capital. 63 The Ulugh 
Khan-i-A’zam set out at the head of the troops, 63 and making forced 
marches, suddenly and unexpectedly entered the hill tracts of Mewat, 
and attacked the rebels with vigour and effect. The rebellion was crush¬ 
ed, the rebels severely punished, and the forces returned to Dihli. The 
Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam advised the Sultan to give these emissaries 
a public reception; and so they were conducted with great pomp 
and parade to the Sultan’s presence, and 200,000 footmen well armed, 
and 50,000 cavalry fully equipped in defensive armour, besides numer¬ 
ous war elephants, were assembled for them to behold and report on 
when they returned into Khurasan. This stroke of policy had the 
desired effect; and the author says : “ Hulau [Hulaku] sent orders to 
the Mughal forces under the standard of Sari [Sail], the Uii-m, saying : 
‘ If the hoof of a horse of your troops shall have entered the dominions 
of the Sultan, 64 the command unto you is this, that all four feet of such 
61 He was the son of the late Malik, Saif-ud-Dfn, Hasan, the Karlugh, who had 
possessed himself of Multan shortly before the Mnghals invested U chch h in 643 H. 
62 At a place called Barutah. See “ Translation,” page 851, note 8. 
63 The Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam had a body of 3,000 Afghans, horse and foot, along 
with him in this expedition, the first time they are mentioned by a contemporary 
historian as in the service of any of the feudatories of the Dihli kingdom. They 
were only now become sufficiently numerous to take service under the Muhammadan 
nobles of the Dihli state. The territories north, west, and south of their mountain 
home— I am referring to “ the Afghanistan,” as described in my “ Notes” on those 
parts, not to the Afghan state —were either in the possession of the Mnghals, who 
were infidels, or their vassals, who groaned under their yoke, like Nasir-ud-Din, the 
Karlugh, above referred to. 
6* This, of course, only refers to the country east of the Biah, for the Muglials 
or their vassals were in possession of all west of that river at the period in question, 
and had been for some time, a fact which Indian history compilers (up to date), do 
not appear to have been cognizant of. 
