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subside, the Sultan moved from Ludhianah to Kabul-pur, along the 
river’s bank, followed by Jasrath, the Khokhar, on the opposite side. 
On the 11th of Shawwal, the tenth month, the Sultan managed to pass 
the Sutlaz, on which Jasrath retired to Jalandhar, and was finally pur¬ 
sued to the Chin-ab. The citadel and town of Labor was then in ruins, 
but the Sultan had them repaired. This was in 825 H. (1422 A. I).). 
At the time of these operations the usual ferry over the river Biah 
was at the mauza ’ of Loh-Wal c Jb ) or Lohi-wal ( J)j ) a 
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dependency of Haibat-piir Pati or Pati Haibat-pur, 213, but the Sutlaj 
flowed a considerable distance—some eight miles or more—farther 
south-east. 
In this same reign, the fort of Multan, which had become greatly 
dilapidated through the attacks of the Mughals, was rebuilt from its 
foundations by Malik Mahmud, the feudatory of the district, son of the 
’Imad-ul-Mulk, Malik Rajab. 
We notice from the foregoing, that Debal-pur was a place of great 
importance for some centuries. Up to the time of Malik, afterwards 
Sultan, Bahlul, the Lodi, the first Afghan or Patan. who sat on the throne 
of Dih.li, we hear of his holding the fiefs of Debal-pur, Sunam, and the 
Firuzah Hisar. The first named place would have been useless to him 
without water; and there is no doubt whatever that the Biah, in his 
time, washed the walls of Debal-pur. It is certain, likewise, that it 
still did so up to the latter part of Akbar Badshah’s reign (and down to 
recent times, as I shall presently show), and, in which reign, Debal-pur 
still continued to be the chief place of that sarlcar or division of the 
Multan siibah, and Uboh-har was its frontier town on the east. 
244 This place is a little less than fifteen miles nearly dne north from Dharam- 
Kot; fifteen miles and a half west of Nikudar (the “Nukodur” of the maps, but 
named after the Mnglial inning or hazdrah which once held it, called the Nikudari 
hazdrah), and six miles south of Haibat-pur of which Loh or Loin Wal was a de¬ 
pendency. It is also just fifteen miles east of the Patan, Ghat, or Ferry of Harf ke, 
as the river ran in 1860. There happens to be a place about two miles west of Hari 
ke Patan of the present day, called ^—Buh, or —Bu-pur, which appears in 
the maps as “ Booh.” During the operations against Jasrath, the Khokhar, there 
was a ferry at this place, which lies close to the old right or west bank of the Biah, 
but it was a ferry of the Biah only; for the Sutlaj and Biah had not then united even 
temporarily. This Buh or Bu-pur lies about fourteen miles west of the place where 
the junction of the two rivers took place in the last century, when they lost their 
respective names altogether, and the united streams became the Hariari, Machhu- 
wah, or Nili, and, farther south, was known as the Ghallii Gliarali, or Gliarah. 
As the first letter of when written rather long, may, without a point, be 
mistaken for ^, as in and some have supposed that referred to and 
that the junction took place at this last named point, but such was not the case, 
See farther on. 
