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Satr Ma’alla, encamped on a river bank, and he seemed to go to join them, 
and liis mother held out a chaplet and said she had his wedding feast 
laid. This was a presage of his coming end. Next day he received 
an ultimatum from the Hindu chieftains demanding that he should 
quit their land. The chiefs who are enumerated in this connection are 
Rae Ra£t, Rae Saet, Arjun, Bhikan, Kanak, Kalyan, Nagaru, Sagaru, 
Karan, Birbal, Ajaipal, Sripal, Harpal, Harakliu, Narakhu, Rajudhari, 
Deonarayan, and Barsingh. Salar Mas’ud of course ignored this 
demand. The chieftains formed a combined camp on the banks of the 
Kuthila. He moved up and defeated them and, after a halt of a week 
on the field, he returned to Bahraich. It was now that he gave 
instructions for the laying out of a garden at the Surajkund and fixed 
on it as his burial-place. He expected death in battle. 
A messenger from Rai Jogi Das of Jumla and one from Rai Gobind 
Das came now and tendered submission for their masters. Thej were 
received with courtesy and others followed suit. The defeated chiefs, 
who wished to prolong the campaign, summoned all the aid they could 
and now Rai Suliar Deo from Sanjauli and Rai Baliar Deo from Sambal- 
auta appear prominent as the organizers and leaders in the struggle 
which followed. The chieftains of both plain and hills came together 
again on the Kuthila. They once more advised Salar Mas’ud to withdraw. 
He rejected the advice and determined to attack them again. At this 
juncture he received news that the enemy had driven off all the cattle 
of his camp, and he at once sounded an advance. The Hindus suffered 
a defeat, but one-third of the Moslem force perished. Salar Mas’ud 
returned again to Bahraich and was lost in religious meditation, much 
to the alarm of his officers. Meanwhile the Hindus mustered their 
forces and advanced against Bahraich. Their first engagement was 
with an advanced post about four miles from Bahraich, but the dire 
fight was at the Surajkund. The engagement lasted for three days. 
By the third day, the 14th Raj jab 424 A. H., the ranks of both Hindu 
and Moslem had been thinned to decimation, and now Salar Mas’ud 
with a handful of the faithful faced Rai Suliar Deo and Rai Bahar 
Deo, who had like him held themselves in reserve. Mas’ud was killed 
and not a Moslem remained alive but was wounded. Next day Mir 
Saiyad Ibrahim, who had been left at Bahraich, came out with his 
reserve, buried Saiyad Masffid and others, and then fell upon Suhar 
Deo. The leaders fell dead at each other’s hands. The inscription on 
Masffid’s tomb at Bahraich may be rendered : 
The Chief Salar Mas‘ud to God was dear: 
In 405 he saw the light of day : 
