The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 35.3.8

35.3.8

But there was still a ravine to be crossed, Rasil then said (to Muhammad Kasim) “You should go one stage higher up, and encamp at Jitér on the stream of Doharah, which is in the suburbs of that town. From that position you can easily carry on war with Dahar and command his front and rear. You will at the same time be able to fall upon his baggage and bring it entirely into your possession.” Muhammad Kasim relied fully on this advice and going to Jitér, encamped on the stream of Doharah. Rai Dahar soon came to know that Muhammad Kasim with the Arab army had come to Jitér. When Wazir Siakar heard this, an exclamation burst from his mouth. “O” said he “(have they come to) the town called Jitor which means the place of victory. When the army has arrived there, certainly victory is theirs.” Rai Dahar on hearing this turned back, and the fire of jealousy dominated his brain and he said in anger: “He has alighted at Hab Bari It is a place where the bones of all of them will kiss the ground.” Dahar then rose and fled to the fort of Raor, within the walls of which he left his retinue and baggage while he himself took up a position in a village, where he was about a league distant from the Arab army. Here Dahar consulted an astrologer: “To-day,” said he, “I intend engaging the enemy. Where is the planet Venus? Find out from your books which of these two armies will be victorious and which vanquished.