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inhabited by Sayyids, who were well treated, and a Daroghah was left 
to protect them from molestation. On the 10th, Amir Suliman Shall 
who with the families, etc., was in the neighbourhood of Mung, moved 
again nearer towards the city of Samanah, and remained there that 
night. On the 11th he again moved and reached the banks of the 
Ghag-ghar; and Amir Timur, who had set out from Tihwanali to punish 
the Jats, joined Amir Suliman Shall on the banks of that river near to 
Samanali. 262 Having halted there some days to rest the forces and 
arrange matters, Amir Timur again moved on the 15tli, and reached the 
vicinity of the bridge of Kopilah [or Gopilali—over the Ghag-ghar 
as it then flowed. There, the Amirs who had been despatched from 
the grassy plain—the Jal-gdli —of Durin 263 at Kabul on particular 
services [which, unfortunately, are not mentioned], who had reduced all 
the places met with on their way, this day effected a junction with the 
rest of the army. The march was resumed on the 16th ; the bridge 
crossed; and, in a verdant plain beyond it, a great camp was pitched. 
The troops despatched from the banks of the Biali by way of Debal-pur, 
here likewise rejoined. On the 17tli the whole army moved from the 
camp near the bridge of Kopilah, and marching a distance of five Jcuroh , 
reached the bridge of Bakran or Bagran [ ] over the river Sursuti. 
On the 19tli of the month the army marched from thence and reached 
the karyah of Kaithal, which is distant from Samanah seventeen kuroh , 
which is equal to five standard farsakhs and two mil” Here the army 
of Amir Timur was marshalled in order of battle preparatory to advanc¬ 
ing upon Dilili; and here I shall leave him, after merely giving what 
the historian of his campaign afterwards says, and in his own exact 
words, respecting the different rivers of the territory now known (cor¬ 
rectly) as “ the territory of the Panj-ab.” 
He says : “ The river flowing through the city of Nagar [Sri-Nagar, 
which he writes with gh —], they call Ab-i-Dandanah, and Ab-i- 
Jamad. Above Multan it unites with the Ohin-ao, and both having 
passed Multan, unite with the Hawaii, which passes on the other side of 
that place, 264 and approach each other. After that, the Ab-i-Biah reaches 
them, and all these, near to U'chckh, unite with the Ab-i-Sind, and the 
whole are then known as Ab-i-Sind, which, on the skirt of the territory 
of Tatah [Thathah], unites with the ’ummdn or ocean.” 
According to the tradition current among the people of this part, 
at the time of my Survey record, Amir Timur is said to have crossed 
262 That river ran under its walls up to the close of the last century. 
263 See my “Notes on Afghanistan.’’ page 689 , and compare Elliot here. In 
the latter’s work the Ghag-ghar is always turned into “ Khagcir.” 
264 I shall refer to the fact noticed here, farther on. 
