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pursuit of tlie Khokliar cliief; and tlie Amir followed, with, the rest of 
the army, to tlie river’s banks, opposite to a place called —Jinjan 
* ♦ • ♦ 
[or —Khanjan and —Khanjan, in two other copies of the 
MS. forty kuroh% bl distant from Multan, where the whole of the forces 
had congregated. He directed that they should commence crossing the 
same day. This was the 13th of the month Safar. On the 15th (26th 
October, 1398), Amir Timur crossed the Biah, and his camp was pitched 
which his followers were overcome and dispersed, and his brother, Mas’ud Mirza, 
was captured. Ibrahim Husain Mirza now sought to re-pass the river Biah, as he 
feared an attack from Multan, Husain Kuli Beg having intimated to Sa’id Khan, the 
feudatory of Multan, that the Mirza had entered his province. As the Mirza had 
only a few followers with him, and night had set in, and no boat was procurable, he 
rested on the river’s bank until day should appear. A party of fishermen, styled 
jhi'ls, and some Baluchis dwelling in that part of the Multan province, fell upon the 
fugitives in the night, and dangerously wounded the Mirza in the throat with an 
arrow, a volley of which they had discharged among the party. He was captured, 
and taken away to Multan to Sa’id Kh an. 
The Tabakat-i-Akbari states, that he halted for the night “ in order to cross 
the Gharah, which is the name of the river formed by the junction of the Sutlaj with 
the Biah. 
Another writer relates this affair somewhat differently, and states, that Ibrahim 
Husain Mirza halted on the banks of the Biah and the Sutlaj (that is, where the rivers 
then met again, in the Multan district, after having separated, as subsequently des¬ 
cribed) ; that he was set upon and wounded by a low class of Multan peasants styled 
jhils, and that he took refuge in the dwelling of a darwesh, Shaikh Zakariya by 
name, who sent information of his whereabouts to Sa id Khan at Multan. This 
agrees with Abu-l-Fazl. 
Faizi, the Sahrindf, says, that the Mirza wanted to cross where the Biah and 
Sutlaj unite and are known as A b-i-Gharah; while the Akbar Nam ah states, that 
Ibrahim Husain Mirza was crossing the Sutlaj at Gharah (see faither on. Gliallu- 
Gharah was then a mahdll of the Multan sarkdr), ivhere the Biah unites with the 
Sutlaj, when he was taken prisoner by the fishermen and peasantry. 
All this clearly shows that the Biah still flowed in its old bed, but that the 
Sutlaj had re-united with the Biah some miles to the south-west of the chdl , or 
dhand, or lake near Shah Nawaz, mentioned in the account of Amir Timur’s move- 
ments, one hundred and eighty years before. 
251 Not “ four kos”—eight miles—as in Elliot, but forty, as above. The “ Zafar 
Namah” referring to this chdl-i-db, on the banks of which the Kbokhar chief had 
fortified himself, says, that, “ this sheet of water was of great expanse, like unto 
the mind of the pure in spirit, deep, and as the area of the inclination of the most 
Editor of “ Elliot’s Historians,” in his version of the Zafar 
a 
beneficent, broad.” The Editor of 
Namah, contained in that work, tarns this part into “ rud-lhana-i'aiim, and, translates 
it “ a strong riser fortress ! ” The original is : f#* of J and there is not 
word about any “ rud-hhdna," or “ river fortress.” 
P de la Croix, in his “ History of Timur-Bec,” surrounds this vast lake with a 
wall, behind which “ Nusret Coukeri retired with 2000 men,” and others copy this 
nonsense. 
