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south ; and between this its left high bank and the right high bank of 
the Biah, but six miles of elevated plateau or dhaiyd (subsequently to 
For some time previously they had lost all their territory north of the Rawi. 
Jam Bayazid, the Sammah, a member of the ruling family qf Sind ousted by the 
Arghuns, who had taken shelter in the Langah territory, and had become its Wazlr, 
rebelled and retired to Shor Kot, and appropriated that part (equivalent to the pre¬ 
sent Jhang district or nearly so), and tendered fealty to Daulat Kh an, Lodi, governor 
of the Lahor province on the part of the Afghan Sultan, Sikandar, Lodi, of Dihli. 
From the period of the usurpation of the Langah Jats over Multan, numbers 
of Baluchis had come thither from the farthest parts of the Baluchistan, from 
Rich and Mukran, and took service with them, receiving large grants of land in 
lieu of pay, and among these was Malik Suhrab, the Duda’i Hut. About the pei’iod 
that Jam Bayazid rebelled, a feud having arisen between one division of the Rinds 
of which Ohakar was the head, and other Baluchis, in which the Rinds came worst 
off, Oh akar, finding the neighbourhood of Siwi too hot for him—not the fortified 
town of that name, but lands dependent on it—left it, and came with his two sons, 
Allah-Dadand Shah-Dad (the latter is said to have first introduced the Shi’ah doctrine 
into Multan), to seek service with the Langalis, but finding no chance of employ¬ 
ment there, he went to Shor Kot, to Jam Bayazid, who took him into his service, and 
out of his fief, assigned him a jd-gir in lieu of pay. This jd-gir was at Sath Garh 
on the Rawi, and there he took up his residence with his people. See note 361, 
page 366. 
After Humayun Badshah had to abandon his kingdom, and retired to Lahor 
in 947 H. (1540-41 A. D.), followed by Sher Khan, of the Sor sub-division of the 
Af gh an tribe of Lodi, who had assumed the sovereignty and title of Sher Shah, 
the Badshah retired into Sind. Sher Shah while in the Panj-ab selected the site 
for the fortress of Ruhtas, which was “ To be a spike in the breast of the Galtliar 
tribe” ; and shortly after, in 949-950 H. (1542-43 A.D.), he left the Karlarni Niazi 
Afghan, Haibat Khan, as governor of the whole Panj-ab, and directed him to free 
the territory from the rebel Baluch, Fath Kh an, Hut, who had possessed himself of 
Kot Kabulah during the distracted state of the country after the downfall of the 
Langahs, raided the Lakhln Jangal district, and devastated all the country round, 
and as far east as Pani-pat ; to free Multan territory altogether from the Baluchis, 
who had seized upon it, and re-people the desolated city of Multan, whose inhabi¬ 
tants had now entirely deserted it. 
Immediately on receipt of these orders, Haibat Kh an, Niazi, sent for the Wakil 
of Ohakar, the Rind ; for now he held his jd-gir from the Afghan governor of the 
Panj-ab, to which government he owed military service, and said to him: “ Go 
thou to Malik Ohakar, the Rind, and intimate to him that I shall be comma- into 
his district immediately, and let him see that the men of his jd-gir are ready for 
my inspection.” The author from whom I take this extract (confirmed by other 
writers), 'Abbas, Sarwarni, in his “ Tarikh-i-Sher Shah-1.” says : “ I heard from the 
lips of Path Khan, Kambu, that, when the Wakil presented himself to Ohakar he 
was dumb-foundered ; for as yet, no preparation had been made for the purpose, or 
the reception of the Khan. On the second day after, news came that Haibat Khan 
had ari’ived within twelve Jcuroh of Sath Garh. Ohakar now became alarmed, and 
said : ‘ I have not mustered my followers, nor made preparations for it. What shall 
I do ! ’ and he was in a great way. Next morning a scout of Ohakar's came in and 
