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them, and moved into the neighbourhood of Debal-pur, and invested 
Ajuddhan; but, on gaining intelligence that Sarang Khan had passed 
Hindu-pat, and had sat down before Labor, he gave up the investment 
of Ajuddhan in the night, and made a forced march towards Lahor. 
Next day, the hostile forces having drawn near each other, came in 
contact at Samu-talah, twelve Icuroh from Labor, in which Shaikh a was 
overthrown, and fled towards Jammu. 
There is a very important passage contained in the Tarikh-i-Mubarak 
Shah-i, of YAhya, son of Ahmad, the Sahrindi, whose work embraces 
events up to the year 85*2 H. (1448 A. D.). After the departure of 
Amir Timur from Hindustan, little was left to Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, 
Mahmud Shah. He says: “In 803 H. (1400-1 A. D.), Taglii Khan, the 
Turkchi Sultani [that is, the Turkish mamlnk or slave of a former 
Sultan], who was the son-in-law of Gkalib Khan, the Amir of Samanah, 
assembled a large force, and moved towards Debal-pur against Khizr 
Khan [afterwards ruler of Dihli, who had been left by Amir Timur in 
possession of the whole of the Multan province, and the territory de¬ 
pendent on Debal-pur, both of which tracts of country extended east¬ 
wards as far as the banks of the Hakra or Wahindah]. 839 Khizr Khan, 
239 This fact, not generally known, or not well understood, has led some to 
assume that all this central tract, constituting the eastern parts of the Multan 
subah, the western parts of the Dihli subah, i. e., the sarkdr of Hisar Firuzah, and 
the northern and western parts of the Ajmir siibah , was left out altogether by Abu-1- 
Fazl. Elliot in his “ Memoirs on the Races of the N.-W. Provinces (Vol. II, p. 17),” 
says : “It will be observed, by referring to the map of Dasturs, that the Western 
boundary of Sirkar Hisar Feroza has been extended only to the bed of the War 
river, which runs not far to the westward of the Ghaggar, the new Parganah of 
Wattu and Bhattiana, being altogether excluded : for this tract, full of sandy plains 
and Thais, seems to have been little known in the time of Akbar, nor with the ex¬ 
ception of Malaud, which was in Multan, does it appear to be included in any Sirkar 
of the adjoining Subahs. It is to be observed, that Abu’l Fazl, in mentioning the 
breadth and length of the several Subahs, measures from Hisar in the Dehli Subah, 
from Ferozpur in the Multan Subali, from the Satlaj in the Lahore Subah, and from 
Bikanir in the Ajmir Subah. He appears, therefore, with the above exception, to 
leave the tract between all these 'places as neutral ground.” 
All this is entirely erroneous : Abu-l-Fa/.l plainly says, and as the printed text 
will show, that the Dihli subah extends from Palwal to Ludhianah on the banks of 
the Sutlaj, and from Hisar to Kh izr-abad ; and among the mahalls or districts of the 
Hisar sarkdr are the districts of Bhatnir, Tihwanah, Hisar Firuzah, Sirsa, Fath-abad, 
Anbalah, Bhatindah, Sahrind, Sunam, Samanah, etc., in all twenty-seven districts. 
Bhatnir and Bhatindah extended to the former channel of the Sutlaj, which 
flowed past Uboh-har, and the Debal-pur sarkdr of which Uboh-har on the bank of 
that channel was the frontier town, adjoined the Bhatindah district on the other 
bank. The Debal-pur sarkdr included the mahalls or districts of Firuz-pur, and 
Muhammad-ot (vul. “ Mumdot”), which joined the mahalls of the sarkdr of Sahrind 
