[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Conquests (711–1206)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest) › [Chachnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama) › [The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg) › 32.3 # The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 32.3 The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind 32.3 - **Language:** English ### [32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32.3) We are sure to derive no small pleasure and advantage from whatever harm he may cause to your exalted position, and in all matters involving his happiness or misery, it should be our duty to stand by him and to co-operate with him. We are equally affected by his pleasure and pain and we are partners in the same country. But reason and wisdom suggest, and (rays of) philosophy proves that this kingdom will ultimately go out of our hands and be transferred to others. The sages and philosophers of Hind, who are the original residents of this country, have found from their books of antiquity, by the use of their astrolabe and their astrology, that this empire will be conquered by an army of Islam and will come into its complete possession and that its leader will be prosperous, successful, sagacious and courageous. The reason is that whenever any great event happens or any misfortune overtakes him, he gathers experience at each such occurrence, and becomes wiser, so much so that if, owing to the slipping away of some favourable opportunity a calamity is likely to fall upon him, he is not at a loss to find some way of escape for himself. When you have taken me into your confidence, and have thought it becoming to show favour to us, honesty and fairness require that I should speak the truth to you, and that is, that if I surrender to you voluntarily without any show of fighting or opposing, my enemies will reproach me for it and I shall thereby bring my noble family into disgrace. - [Previous: 32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32.2) - [Next: 32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32.4) - [Up: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.32.3) · Pramāṇa