The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 44.2.3

44.2.3

Muhammad Kásim now came up to Dahlelah, and there he halted for about two months, (to lay siege to the place). When the occupants of the fort were pressed very hard and they despaired of help from any direction, they put on the clothes of death and applied otto of roses and other sweet herbs to their bodies (as they used to do to dead bodies), and taking their families with them issued from the gate facing the town of Ramal and managed to cross the waters of the Manjhal, without the knowledge of the Mussulmans. When day-light made its appearance from behind the curtain of dark-night, Muhammad Kásim came to know of their (secret) departure. He then despatched a band of soldiers in pursuit who overtook them just when they were crossing the small river. Some of them were caught and immediately struck down, but those who had already passed over, made their way viâ Ramal to Hindustan, and sought shelter in the country of Sírí, which was then ruled by King Deurái, a cousin of Rái Dáhar’s. When the war with Dahlelah was over, and Muhammad Kásim took possession of the town, he sent the fifth share of booty to the treasury of the Khalifah, and wrote a letter to Hajjáj, in which he gave a detailed account of his successes at Bahrór and Dahlelah.