The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 10: Chach brings his brother.

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Chach now resolved to appoint his brother Chandra his deputy at the city of Alor. So he sent a trustworthy person to him with the following message:—"Our nearest relations are ascetics, and have always been faithful worshippers of idols in their temples. Their custom of worshipping fire and devotion to God are widely known. Our father Selaij acts on the saying,—'But we saw our fathers doing the same,' and this is approved by all our learned men and philosophers. But it is so written in the books of Hind, that, whenever a person, who has trained his soul to abstinence and austerity, dies, his soul, on its separation from the body, and, in return for his good deeds, transmigrates to the child of a king or a great man, in whose body it enjoys perfect rest owing to (the presence of) creature comforts and the affluence of fortune. And the God of Selaij has given us sovereignty this time, and a spacious empire has come under my command. Now my judgment demands that I should appoint you as my agent or vicegerent in the city of Alor and make you my heir-apparent. You can assist in the administration of the country by practising religiousness, faithfulness, abstinence and piety here also.” Although Chandra showed great reluctance, he was ultimately brought and appointed to the royal court. The entire administration of Alor was absolutely left in his hands by Chach, who entrusted also to his care his own private as well as State affairs.