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He says he got up into a tree to spend the night, and to secure himself from wild beasts, which were plentiful there.
As he was walking on the river bank he noticed a number of his men and officers, who, at the beginning of the late struggle had found a boat in which they had traversed the river amidst great dangers from rocks, &c. Among them were three officers, his particular friends, with whom he arranged plans. He was soon after joined by 300 horse, who told him 4,000 more had saved themselves by swimming two leagues from thence, but that they were in great distress from weariness and want of clothing. Presently an officer of his household, named Jamâlu'r-razad, who was not present at the battle, but having heard that his master had escaped, loaded a large boat with food, money, stuffs, bows and arrows, swords, &c. &c., with which he crossed the Indus. This very seasonable relief greatly pleased the Sultan, who appointed his benefactor steward of his household, and surnamed him Ikthiaru'd-dîn, i.e., the saviour of the faith.58
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
Northern India was at this time subject to the Turkish dynasty founded by Qutbu'd-din, Ibak-al-Mu'izi. On the death of Qutba'd-din, about the year 607 A. H. i.e., 1210, he was succeeded by his son, Arâm Shah, who was speedily murdered. Thereupon a partial division of the heritage ensued. Qutbu'd-din left three daughters, one of these married Sultan Shamsu'd-din I-yal-tamsh, who had been much cherished by his father-in-law, and given the fief of Budâon. He was now raised to the throne of Dehli. The other two daughters of, Qutbu'd-dîn were successively married by Nasiru'd-din Kabajah, of whom Minhaj-i-Saraj tells us that on the death of his father-in-law, "he proceeded to Uchchah and possessed himself of the city of Multan and Sindustân (i.e. Siwistân, the modern Sihwân), and Diwal, as far as the seacoast. The whole he brought under his sway and subjected the fortresses, cities, and towns of the territory of Sindh, assumed two canopies of state, and annexed the country as far as the limits of Tabarhindah, Kuhram, and Sarsuti.""" On the death of Qutbu'd-din the district of
De la Croix, pp. 320 and 321. Tabakat-i-Nasirt, p. 532.
5 Id., p. 530. Tabakat-i-Nagirl, p. 293 note; Shajrat-ul-Atrak,
p. 178.
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Lakhnavati was appropriated by the Khalaj chiefs, while Lahor was sometimes seized by each of the two brothers-in-law above named, the rulers of Dehli and of Sindh respectively, and sometimes by Malik Taju'd-din Yaldus of Ghazni."
When Jalâlu'd-dîn, after crossing the Indus as we have described, had collected a few men about him, he set out eastwards. Raverty says he entered the Chul desert tract of Jaruk, still called, perhaps, from this fact, Chul-i-Jalâli," and sent on some one to explore, who reported that he had found a body of 2,000 Hindus encamped on the hills of Bilalah and Nikalah. Jalâlu'd-din attacked and dispersed them and appropriated their horses, and thus mounted some of his followers. Having heard that the Mongols were pursuing him, he now retired towards Dehli, and sent an envoy to I-yal-tamshi to recall the friendship which had hitherto subsisted between their peoples, and asking for shelter. I-yal-tamsh charged this envoy with having conspired against him, and put him to death, and excused himself from granting him a settlement on the ground that the climate would injure the Sultan's health, but offered to welcome him if he would go on to Dehli, an offer which perhaps meant that he would thus get him into his power. He sent a messenger with presents to excuse the murder of the envoy. According to Minhaj-i-Sarâj he, on the contrary, sent an army against him." At all events it was plain that he would not be welcomed at Dehli, so he turned his steps elsewhere, and despatched a force into the hills of Jud, in the midst of the Sindh-Sagar Doâb, which defeated the Khôkars, and returned with a great booty. Jalâlu'd-dîn married the daughter of the Rai of Khôkar, while the latter's son, who was given the title of Kutlugh, joined him with a force. D'Ohsson apparently calls this chief the prince of Judi. He says he had 1,000 horsemen and 5,000 foot soldiers with him; the. Sultan, who had 4,000 men with him, defeated this army also. Its chief was struck by an arrow and killed, and he secured fauch booty.
There had long been strife between the Khôkars and Kabajah, the ruler of Sindh,
51 Tabakat-i-Nasirt, pp. 293 and 294 notes; Erdmann, p. 432. [The Jud or Judi of the text is the Salt Range of the Jhelam District; Jud being still the Muhammadan name for the Sakesar Peak.-ED.]
