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and the Biah” thus reversing their situations as is done in the previous 
extract, while the Ohin-ab is not mentioned. He also mentions towns 
and districts, saying: “There are Banian of Koh-i-Jud [he is the only 
author that I know of who distinctly mentions where this tract lay 211 ], 
Sudarah [Sudharah], Jalandhar, the territory of theKokars [Khokhars], 
Multan, I/chohh, Hasi [Hansi], Sur-Suti, Kaithal, Sunam, Tabarhindah/’ 
etc. 
Previous to this, about 707 H. (1307-8 A. D.), Sultan Ghiyas-ud- 
Din, Tughluk Shah, when he, as Ghazi Malik, held the fiefs of Multan 
and Debal-pur, 212 then the capital of the northern Panj-ab, and Multan 
See “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri,’’ page 677, note 5. Sudharah is situated about four 
niiles east-north-east of Wazir-abad, and styled “ Sohdurah ” in the maps. In former 
times the Cliin-ab flowed close to it on the north, but is now nearly four miles from 
it. Sudharah is an ancient site. In the last century, there used to be a lofty 
mandr of burnt brick standing there, on the bank of the Ohin-ab. 
213 From the various operations and encounters between the rivals for tho 
throne, before Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Tughluk Shah, succeeded to it, who, as Ghazi 
Malik, held the fief of Debal-pur, there appears to have been no want of water be¬ 
tween that place and Sarasti. He, on one occasion, came out of Debal-pur to meet 
his rivals coming from that part. “ Ghazi Malik, leaving Debal-pur, passed the 
kasbah of Dabhali ( ), and with the river (ab) in his rear, he encountered 
them.” That river is not named, but the place here mentioned lies between Debal- 
pur and Sarasti or Sirsa, thirty-six miles to the westwards of Uboh-har, and stands 
on the bank of the oldest channel of the Sutlaj, called in the maps “the eastern 
“ Naiwal” and “ Nyewal.” See the notice of the river Sutlaj farther on. 
In the extracts given by Elliot in his “Indian Historians” vol. Ill, from a 
French version of Ibn Batutah, it is stated, that, in the reign of Sultan Muhammad 
Shah, son of Tughluk Shah, “ Kishlu Khan revolted against him, spread his money, 
raised troops, and sent emissaries among the Turks, Afghans, and Khurasanis, who 
flocked to him in great numbers. His army was equal to the Snltan’s, and even 
superior to it in numbers. Tho Sultan marched in person to fight him, and “ they 
met two days’ journey from Multan, in the desert plain of Abuhar. The “ desert 
plain” here mentioned, refers to the sandy tract referred to in the next paragraph 
of the text above. 
There seems to have been considerable disarrangement in the MSS. from which 
Lee’s and other translations of Ibn Batutah have been made; for, in them he sets 
out from Multan and goes to Uboh-har, and, after going a journey of four days from 
thence, reaches Ajuddhan. The traveller’s account, therefore, has been reversed. 
He first went to Ajuddhan from Multan, and, from the first-named place, in four 
days, reached Uboh-har. At Ajuddhan he visited, he says, “ the famous Muhammadan 
saint, whose tomb after his decease became a place of pilgrimage,” and after a lapse 
of five centuries still continues to be held in great veneration—the Shaikh-ul-Islam, 
Farid-ul-Hakk wa ud-Din, Shakar-Ganj, son of Jalal-ud-Din, Suliman ; and at whose 
tomb, Sultan Firuz Shah, and Amir Timur, offered up their prayers, as related 
farther on. It is from this Muhammadan saint that Ajuddhan is also known as the 
Bale Pat tan —The Holy Town— but not Pat an, a Ferry, as some have assumed. 
