The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 15.2

15.2

He took possession of it, and ordered it to be reconstructed. He also arranged that, according to the established Indian custom, kettle-drums should be beaten and other musical instruments sounded at the approach of evening and the break of day in the fort; that is to say, the sound of kettle drums was to be accompanied by that of a musical instrument. He collected the people of the surrounding villages, and employed them in re-building the fort. Then he left the place and came to Kirmán. There is a small river running between Kirmán and Makrán. He encamped there, and marked out the eastern boundary line, by declaring that certain date trees growing there defined the limit between Kirman and Makran. Further, he planted a grove of date trees in a place on the banks of the stream, and branded into them the words:—“This is the boundary that existed in the days of Chach son of Seláij, son of Bísás, the king of Sind, and this day it came into our possession.”