The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 46.2.3

46.2.3

You should not expose yourselves to trouble and ruin, and throw not yourselves with your own hands into perdition.” Saying so, she set up a wail, and wept bitterly and began to sing dirges. But the men standing on the top of the ramparts said: “You are telling a lie; you, too, have conspired with these Chandáls and cow-eaters and are united with them. Our king is still living. He is soon to come with a large army and numerous troops and furious elephants, to defeat the enemy. You have mixed with the Arabs and defiled yourself. You prefer their rule to ours.” They then began to abuse her. Muhammad Kasim came to know of this, and sent back for Ladi, and said:—“Sovereignty has after all turned away from the house of Siláij.”