366 H. Cr. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
ancient that we know of, except that in which it flowed when Chacji 
attacked Multan, and afterward Muhammad, the ’Arab commander— 
and in flood-time some of its water still finds its way into it, or did, at 
least, a few years since. 
The change last mentioned appears to have taken place at the 
time of, or to have been brought about through the effects of, the great 
flood which devastated the northern part of the Panj-ab territory, 
which will be again noticed ; and this appears to have been the course 
of the river when Amir Timur crossed the Ohin-ab below its confluence 
with the Bihat near Shor Kot, 361 and the Rawi opposite Tulanbah on 
the north, and encamped before it. From thence he passed on to the 
861 Some additional light is thrown on the courses of the rivers of the Panj-ab 
in the accounts of the raids of Mir ’All Beg, the Mughal, from the direction of 
Kabul. 
During the disturbed state of the Dihli kingdom subsequent to the death of 
Kh izr Khan, when his son, Sultan Mubarak Shah, succeeded, Shor or Shor Kot 
played a conspicuous part from its situation. 
Sultan Mubarak Shah, succeeded his father in the fifth month of 824 H. (June, 
1421 A.D ), and withdrew allegiance from Sultan Shah llukh Mirza, Bahadur 
Khan, son of Amir Timur, the Gurgan. which his father had faithfully observed 
from the time Amir Timur conferred upon him the territory of Multan and Debal- 
pur, and had never assumed the title of Sultan, which his son now took. 
This act soon began to bear fruit. In the year 826 H. (1422 A.D.), the Mir, 
’All Beg, son of Danish-Manchah. a descendant of Ghnghatae Khan, son of the 
Chingiz Kh an, who was the Na’ib or Deputy of the Mirza Saiyur gh -timish. son of 
Sultan Shah Bukh, who had been made the feudatory of Kabul, Zabul, and the 
territories bordering on both sides of the Ab-i-Sind or Indus, with Sultan Shah 
Rukh’s sanction, threatened an invasion of Siw-istan and Bakhar of Sind, but it did 
not come about. This Mirza Saiyurgh-timish is the personage respecting whom, 
Mr. J. Dowson, the Editor of Elliot’s “ Indian Historians,” has made such a sad 
error. He styles him (Vol. IV., p. 59) “ Shaikh ’All, lieutenant of the prince the 
son of 8ar-’atmash.” Another writer calls him “ Suyurgutmish” 
Sultan Mubarak Shah, on this, directed Malik Mahmud, son of the 'Imad-ul- 
Mulk, the then feudatory of Lahor, to put the defences of Multan, which had 
become greatly dilapidated, consequent on the repeated Mughal inroads during 
many years, in order ; and he rebuilt the fortifications anew from the foundations. 
In 833 H. (1429-30 A D.), during the time that Jasrath, son of Shaikha, the 
Khokhar, which latter had died some short time before, was in rebellion, and keeping 
the whole of the eastern Panj-ab and adjacent parts in disorder, the Sayyid. Salim, 
feudatory of Tabarhindah [in Elliot, IV, 68, the editor inserts “ Sirhind ,” to lec us 
know, perhaps, that they are both one and the same place, which they are not], 
and an olda nd trusted servant of Khizr Khan for thirty years, who had amsseda great 
wealth, died. On this, Folad, a Turk slave of the Sayyid, seized all his property_ 
instigated by one of the late Sayyid’s sons, who were at the Dihli court, it is said — 
and also upon Tabarhindah for himself. A force was sent against him ; and, after 
some time, being reduced to straits, Folad sought aid from Mir ’Ali Beg, the 
