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tlie Kabuli, who had been sent to Debal-pur as Daroghah, with 1,000 
troops, were all massacred by them. On the approach of Amir Timur 
to the aid of his grandson, they abandoned the place with all their be¬ 
longings, and went off to the hisdr of Bhatnir. 
When Amir Timur reached Jhawal or Jhawal he gave orders for 
the main body of his forces to move by way of Debal-pur, in order that, 
in the vicinity of Dihli, at the mauza ’ of Samanah, he would re-join it. 
Then, taking a body of 10,000 cavalry along with him, he turned off 
towards Ajuddhan ; and making a forced march, and going on all night, 
on the morning of the 24th, at sunrise, reached that place. Many of 
the principal people of this town had also gone off to Bhatnir, and none 
remained but a few Sayyids and ’Ulama, who came forth to receive him. 
They were well treated, and a Daro gh ah was left with them that they 
might not be molested by any other troops passing that way. On the 
morning of the 25th, after offering up prayers and paying his devotions 
within the domed building where is the tomb and shrine of the Shaikh, 
Farid-i-Shakar-Ganj, he set out towards Bhatnir. Passing [Ru- 
dunah or Rawdunah], 254 and proceeding ten huroh , he reached Khalis 
254 Jn the Malfuzat-i-Timuri, in “Elliot’s Historians,” it is said [p. 421], that, 
<c passing by Rudanah , I halted at Ivhalis Kotali;” but, in the extract from the 
Tfmur^Namah in the same work, the same word or rather letters are trans¬ 
lated : “ From thence he started for Bhatnir, and crossing the river , he arrived at 
Khalis-kotali.” This is improved upon in a note to the word ‘ river,’ which is ex¬ 
ceedingly amusing to read by one who knows the parts in question. See Vol. Ill, 
p. 488 of the above work. If water is here referred to, which I do not think it is, 
would be the plural of Ay—river. 
Referring to the confluence of the “ Bias and Satlej,” in his “ Ancient Geo¬ 
graphy of India,” Cunningham, quoting “ Abul Fazl,” says “ For the distance of 
12 kos near Firuzpur the rivers Biah and Satlej unite, and these again, as they pass 
on, divide into four streams, the Hur, Hard, Band, and Nurni,” but this turns out 
to be “ Gladwin’s translation of the Ayin Akbari.” The A’in-i-Akbari contains 
nothing of this sort. It says (see also Blochmann’s text, page 549) : “For about 
twelve huroh above Firuz-pur, the Biah and Sutlaj unite, and after that receive 
[That is the two united] the names—Harihari, Dand, and Nurni, and near Multan 
unite with the other four [[rivers of the Panj-ab, before mentioned] ; but, in a foot¬ 
note, Blochmann, who had no local knowledge, divides the word Harihari, which is 
so well known, into Ear and Hari, as though two words, which it is not. This 
Gladwin also seems to have done, but there is not a word of these again, as they 
pass on divide into four streams this is all Gladwin’s own if, in his translation. It 
is a great pity that translators when they do not understand a passage, should add 
words of their own, because it misleads: better to merely give a literal translation, 
and say they do not clearly understand it. An example of this pernicious system is 
given in note 255, below. 
Abd-l-Fazl, as it happens, says, that, “between the Biah and the Sutlaj is a 
distance of fifty kuroh. ,> See also page 296. 
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