The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 34.7

34.7

The learned men of Hind who have given a narrative of the war have stated, on the authority of a Brahmin, who said that he had heard it from Madds son of Hubiyeh Tamimi (a man then in Raor), that, when Dahar heard of Muhammad Kasims encamping at Jitor, he ordered a litter to be placed on his elephant and he forthwith got into it, rode to the bank of the river, and stood opposite the army of Islam. The waters of the Mehran flowed between the two adversaries. Muhammad Kasim marshalled his army. One of the Syrian soldiers, who was a clever hand at arrow-shooting wanted to plunge his horse into the river and discharge an arrow at the enemy. But his horse shied at the sight of water and would not go near it. Meanwhile Rai Dahar took up his bow, which was so strong and stiff and large that no one but himself could string it. He pulled the string on it tightly, fixed an arrow on it, and discharged it with all his force. Straight went the arrow and hit the horseman, passing through his coat of mail and piercing his navel, and he fell down dead from his horse. Dahar then went back and ordered Jéhin Budh to post himself at the ferry landing, on the bank of the Mehran, opposite the fort of Bet, and to watch the enemy lest they should cross the river from there. "Let them" said he "come down to the river from another place where the water may be deep and where there may be plenty of mud and slough.