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banks of the Blah, and crossed it by means of boats, and some of 
liis troops by swimming, as already related in the account of his expe¬ 
dition. 
Muglial Deputy at Kabul (who now was acting for Mas’ud Mirza, son of Mirza 
Saivurgh-timish, who had died at Ghaznln in 830 H. See my “ Notes on Afghanis¬ 
tan,” pages 364, and 578), promising him a large subsidy for his help. Nothing loth, 
he, with Sultan Shah Rukh’s permission, set out from Kabul in the fifth month of 
834 H. (Feby. 1432 A.D.) towards Tabarhindah, plundering and devastating all the 
country he passed through until he arrived within ten kuroh of that stronghold. 
On this, Sultan Mubarak Shah’s general, Islam Kh an, who, with his forces, had 
been investing Folad therein, had to raise the investment ; and Folad paid Mir ’All 
Beg two lakhs of tangahs for his aid. Taking his family and effects along with him 
(including Sayyid Salim’s wealth, probably), Folad proceeded along with Mir ’All 
Beg on his return to Kabul. 
The latter moved by way of Jalhandar, and from thence towards Lahor, in 
the month of Kajab (the seventh month), and by Kasur and Debal-pur, devastating 
and plundering the country passed through ; and the people of Kh at-pur [the 
chief place of the northernmost of the mahdlls of the Multan snbah or province at 
that period, situated on the Raw! and then in the Bari Do-abah] he carried away 
captive. The ’Imad-ul-Mulk, Malik Rajab, Nadiri, (by some called Muhammad 
Hasan), the feudatory of Multan and Debal-pur, moved out of Multan to inter¬ 
cept him, and marched to Tulanbah. 
On this, Mir ’All Beg fell back on Kh at-pur ; and just at this time the ’Imad-ul- 
Mulk was directed to return to Multan. On the 24th of the eighth month of the 
above year he retired towards that place, on which Mir ’All Beg passed the Rawi 
near Khat-pur, and then, keeping along the line of the Jihlam (which the Tarikh-i- 
Mubarak Shah-1 says “ is well known as the Ohin-ab,” meaning the united Jihlam 
and Ohin-ab, but to which, in the extract from that work in Elliot, Vol. IV, p. 70, 
Mr. Dowson puts a foot-note, that “ such is the extraordinary statement of the text, 
and Firishta copies it,” only there is nothing extraordinary in it), he plundered 
the country as he proceeded, and afterwards turned round and marched towards 
Multan. This he could not have done had the rivers flowed then as now. 
On his approaching within ten kuroh of that place, the ’Imad-ul-Mulk despatch¬ 
ed Malik Sultan Shah, the Lodi Af gh an [uncle of Malik Bahlul, who afterwards 
became Sultan of Dilili, and was the first of the Patan or Afghan race who exercised 
sovereignty anywhere], at the head of his available troops, and followed himself, 
towards Jun-pur, a place I cannot now find. There an obstinate battle took place, 
in which Mir ’All Beg was victorious, and Malik Sultan Shah was defeated and 
slain, and his troops routed. Mir ’All Beg then pushed on towards Multan, and 
appeared before Khair-abad, near that place on the Tulanbah side, on the 3rd of 
Ramazan (the ninth month) 834 H. (June, 1431 A.D.), and the next day attacked one 
of the gateways of the fort. Fighting went on daily in and around the suburbs until 
the 2fith of the following month, when the place was relieved by a force from 
Dihll, which attacked Mir ’All Beg and defeated him He then withdrew to a 
fortified position, which he had enclosed with a mud wall for his troops and 
baggage; but, unable to hold that, he was obliged to retire across the Jihlam [the 
Ohin-ab and Jihlam united], and, in so doing, he lost a great number of his officers 
and men drowned, killed, or taken prisoners ; and with his brother’s son, Mir 
