The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 46.1.5

46.1.5

It is related that when Muhammad Kasim satisfactorily settled the affairs of Brahmanabad, and put on a firm footing his power in the Eastern and the Western Districts and the country round about the town (of Banbanwah), he marched out on Thursday, the third of the month of Muharram of the year 94, and alighted at a town called Musthal, in the vicinity of Sawandi and close to a beautiful lake with a pleasant meadow, called Dhandh Wikarbha, and on the bank of this Dhandh (lake) he made his camp. The residents of the place and its surrounding country were Samanis, Bahzams and merchants. All these men came forward to pay respect to Muhammad Kasim, and he pardoned them all, (as he had orders from Hajjaj to that effect,) and allowed them to live happy and safe in the place of their birth and to regularly send the tribute fixed on them to the public treasury. He appointed two of them to be their headmen,—one a Samani by name Bawad and another a Buddhist, by name Zaman (or Baman) Dhal. All the rustics of the Jat tribe living about the place put their heads in the yoke of submission, and to all of them he gave pardon in accordance with the written orders of Hajjaj. He sent a report of all these matters, and when Hajjaj came to know of the smooth working of the administration he wrote a reply as follows: