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H. G. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [No. 4, 
The finding of the gold, from which this temple was afterwards 
known among the Musalmans as “ the Far Ml of the Bait, or Receptacle 
or Chamber of Gold,” has been related in another place. 
“ After this success, Muhammad, son of Kasim, returned to Alor or 
Aror and Bagbrur, and made presents to his soldiers.” 
After the removal of Muhammad, son of Kasim, and his death, when 
Habib, son of Muhallab was Amir of Sind, Jai Sinha, son of Dahir, had 
returned from Kash-mir to Bahman-abad and established himself there, 
but Habib having advanced to the banks of the Mihran, the people of 
Aliur [jjj )t sic. Ar-Rur ? or Ar-Ror ?] made their submission. In the 
mean time rhe Khalifah, Suliman, son of ’Abd-ul-Malik, died, and 
’Umar, son of ’Abd-ul-’Aziz, succeeded. He sent to the native chiefs of 
Sind inviting them to become Musalmans, and several did so, including 
Jai Sinha, son of Dahir, and they received ’Arab names. 
possibly meant for Kuhror. Then he is said to have sent a force of 10,000 horse 
against Kinnauj, which is constantly mentioned in connexion with Sind and Multan, 
and appears to have adjoined the latter territory on the east, and included part of 
the present Bikanir state. See pages 207, 208, and 223. 
On reaching a place called Udah-fur [jj-J Odih-pur—the “Odipoor” of the 
maps, fourteen miles to the southwards of Alwanah on the Hakra], one of the ’Arab 
officers was sent to the ruler of Kinnauj, who is styled Ra’e Har-Chandar, Jhital ; 
and at this same place, which Muhammad had thus reached, in expectation of enter¬ 
ing into hostilities with the Kinnauj ruler, and extending the Muhammadan conquests 
in that quarter, the orders arrived from the Khalifah for him to be sewn up in a 
raw hide and sent to the ’Arab capital, which subject I need not enter into here ; 
but, soon afterwards, great disorders appear to have arisen in these parts, and the 
Musalmans lost ground considerably, and which they did not recover for sometime 
afterwards. 
The Ohach Namah says Muhammad, son of Kasim, was preparing to make war 
on Ra’e Har-0h an( lar, Jhital, of Kinnauj (not the city on the Kali Nadi), the very 
day before his recall (on account of the false accnsation of the daughters of Ra’e 
Dahir), but Tod, in his “Annals of Mewar,” whose historic knowledge was of a 
peculiar kind, actually makes him march to “ Cheetore,” as he spells Ohitor, but 
only to be overthrown by a Raj-put, as we might fully suppose. He says (vol. 1, 
p. 231) : “ In the ninety-fifth year of the Hegira—A. D. 713, Mahomed Bin Kasim, 
the general of the Caliph Walid, conquered Sinde. * * * If any doubt existed that 
it was Kasim [sic] who advanced to Cheetore, and was defeated by Bappa, it was set 
at rest by finding at this time in Cheetore, ‘ Dahir,' the Prince of “ Jbebeil," as he 
spells Debal, which Dahir had been killed in battle more than two years before. 
All this is not surprising when we consider who this “ Bappa” was who defeated 
“ Kasim," only it was Kasim’s son who conquered Sind, after his father, Kasim, had 
been dead some years. According to Tod’s “Annals,” Bappa “ overcame all the 
kings of the west, Ispahan, Kandahar, Cashmire, Irak, Iran, Tooran, and Cajferist.'han; 
all of whose daughters he married, and by whom he had one hundred and thirty 
sons, called Noslxeyra Pathans This is quite sufficient. 
