The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 34.10

34.10

When Dahar came to know for certain that Mokah Basayeh had surrendered to Muhammad Kasim and had joined his camp, he sent for his son Jaisiah, and Jaisiah came to the bank of the river with a large number of men and instruments of war, and weapons, in boats by the small river of Kétak. Muhammad Kasim had encamped on the opposite bank at Jhim and Kéhal, where he had halted for nearly 40 days during which period grain and grass had begun to fail, the supply of provisions for men had been nearly consumed, and the army had become perplexed and anxious. Diseases broke out among the horses on account of their using different kinds of fodder, and every horse that was attacked by disease was killed and eaten. The enemy were meditating to lay every kind of plot to bring the Arabs into trouble, and when Dahar got this news he became overjoyed. He sent a man to Muhammad Kasim advising him not to seek a miserable end.