394 H. G. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. Ko. 
downstream. Amir Timur crossed from Ajuddhan to Bhatnir on the 
last day of October, 1398 A. D., shortly after the subsidence of the 
inundations, and when all the rivers are still high. 411 Although he tells 
us about the Biali being rapid and unfordable, and that he had to send 
his troops across in boats, -while some swam their horses across, he 
makes no mention whatever of any river, or channel of any river, 
between Khalis Kotlali 413 and the Gliag-ghar at Bhatnir. Indeed, there 
is not a word respecting the Sutlaj, either in the histories of Amir 
Timur’s expedition, or in Ibn Batutall’s travels. It seems almost im¬ 
possible for Amir Timur to have reached Bhatnir from Pir-i-Khalis 
without having to cross the Sutlaj, yet, as before remarked, it is never 
once referred to ; and Ibn Bat Utah mentions no liver whatever between 
Ajuddlian and Ubob-liar, 413 but says that that place abounded in water 
HI Not so liiglr, of course, as during the inundations, but xnueli higher than 
the usual cold season levels. 
412 Pir-i-Klialis of the present time, the “ Peer Khalis” of the maps. See 
page 285. 
H3 Cunningham in his “Ancient India/’ pp. 218-219, refers to “ Ajudhan ” 
as “ for many centuries the principal ferry of the Satlej,” and says, that, “at this 
point the great conquerors Mahmud and Timer, and the great traveller Ibn Batuta 
crossed the Satlej.” I have stated above that in Ibn Batutah’s work there is no 
mention whatever of any Sutlaj ; and no river is mentioned between Ajuddhan and 
Uboh-har; and neither in any history of Mahmud of Ghaznin, nor of Amir Timur, 
will such a word as “ Satlej ” be found, nor Sutlaj either. 
In another place, lower down, he says : “ the fort is said [by whom not men¬ 
tioned] to have been captured by Sabuktugin in A. H. 367, or A. D. 977-78 during his 
expedition into the Panjab, and again in A. II. 472, or A. D. 1079-80 by Ibrahim 
Ghaznavi # # * The present name of Pak-pattan is of comparatively modern 
date.” See note 330, page 37 5, and note 420, page 398. 
There is no record in early history to show that Sultan Ibrahim of Ghaznin 
“ captured” Ajuddhan, because the whole of the Panj-ab territory as far east as the 
Hakra, and in which Ajuddhan lay, had been subject to the Ghaznin Sultans for 
some seventy years before 472 H. The Tarikh-i-AIfi. quoting older works, states, 
that the place (mistaken by Firishtah for Ajuddhan) was called [Ajudor Achud] 
one hundred farsangs, equal to three hundred miles and more, from Labor, then the 
capital of his dominions in Hind; and that, after obtaining possession of that place, 
another stronghold, named U'man was reduced. This last was situated on 
the exti’eme border of Hind, on a high mound, on one side of which was the ocean, 
and near which vessels could be seen passing to and fro; and on the other side 
was a jangal so dense as to exclude the light of day. At the foot of the fortress 
there was scarcely standing 1 room for the troops to attack it. The only direction 
that the distance here given will suit is near the sea coast, between Sind and Kan- 
bhayah (vul. “ Cambay ”), on the coast of Kathiawar. 
Sultan Ibrahim is also stated to have captured Lfdah-purak, said to have been 
11 peopled by the descendants of Khurasanis transported thither in former ages by 
Afrasiyab, near which was a reservoir of vast extent, and the jangals surrounding 
which were so dense, that the Hindu Rajahs deemed it unassailable.” 
