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sion, and the Sultan marched hack to Dihli by Siw-istan, Bakhar, 
Multan, and Debal-pur, crossing once more, what has been assumed to 
have been, at that time, a great, waterless desert, on his way to Dihli. 
If there then was such a scarcity of water, and all the rivers be¬ 
tween Ajuddhan and the Firuzah Hisar had been dried up, he certainly 
would not have chosen that route on so many different occasions. 236 
Sultan Finiz Shah died in the ninth month of 790 H. (1388 A. D.), 
Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud, his grandson, who succeeded his father, 
Sultan Muhammad Shah in 796 H. (1393-94 A. D.), despatched one of 
his Amirs, Sarang Khan, to Debal-pur, to gain possession of that fief 
and also Multan, and to put down Shaikh a. the Khokhar, 237 who was in 
rebellion. In the eighth month of that same year (796 H.), Sarang 
Khan proceeded to Debal-pur. # * # In the eleventh month of the 
same year (just five years before Amir Timur appeared upon the same 
scene), Sarang Khan, having taken along with him Ra’e Dul-Ohin, the 
Bliati chief, (the same who surrendered Bhatnir to Amir Timur), and 
Ra’e Da’ud, and Kamal-ud-Din, the Ma’in 238 chief, and the forces of 
Multan and Debal-pur, crossed the Suttladr (Sutlaj) near the town of 
Tiharah, and afterwards the Biah near Duhali or Dohali, and entered 
the territory of Labor. Shaikha, the Khokhar, hearing of these move¬ 
ments, having previously mustered his followers, took advantage of 
236 Shams-i-Saraj (as well as others) states, that, “in the hot season, numbers 
of gor hhar or wild asses congregate between Debal-pur and Sarasti,” where Akbar 
Badshah hunted them in after years, as he also did in the neighbourhood of Ajuddhan. 
237 See my “Notes on Afghanistan,” etc., page 367 respecting these Kho- 
khars, who are invariably made “ Gickers,” “ Gukkurs,” “ Ghakkars,” “ Gakkhurs,” 
and the like, by different English writers, unaware of the existence of the great tribe 
of Khokhar who are Jats, and of the Gakhars, a comparatively small tribe, being a 
totally distinct race. The Khokhars extend from the northern Panj-ab, where 
their chief places are Bharah and Khush-ab, down into Lar or Lower Sind, Kachchh, 
and even Kathiawar. They cannot number at present less than 50,000 families, 
and are probably nearly double that number. Cunningham, who falls into the 
same error as others respecting them, says, “ Gakar ” —turning them into Gakhars— 
is most probably only cl simple f!] variation of the ethnic title of Sabar ov Ab&ri,” but 
the Khokhars are never even named by him ! The Gakhars at this period were of 
no account whatever, being then a small and weak tribe, dwelling much farther 
west. They afterwards became somewhat stronger, and finally extended as far 
east as Gnjarat (in the Panj-ab), the farthest point east ever reached by them. 
This was but for a short period, however, while they never extended farther south 
than the parallel of the Salt Range, about 32 3 -20 / N. Lat., while the Khokhars 
overran nearly the whole of the remainder of what, in after times, was called the 
Panj-ab, east and south, and even contemplated the seizure of Dihli and its territory. 
See also Amir Timur’s encounter with them on the Biah near Multan at page 281. 
233 Also written Mahin. 
