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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49.2.3

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 49.2.3

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49.2.3

This signal service of the Shaikh remained ever as a debt upon the people of Hindustan; and a full detail of this circumstance is given at length in the Maqamat of the Shaikh. A few days after this victory Khizr Khan and Bahadur Nahir Miwati, who had taken alarm and fled to the hill country of Miwat, came in and paid their respects to the Great Timur; orders were issued to make all of their party prisoners, with the exception of Khizr Khan, who had apparently done some former good service which saved him. After this he raised the banner of return and seized the country at the foot of the Siwalik hills, and greatly shook that hill country as it were with an earthquake, ere he reached Lahor. For the date of this victory they assigned the two words (Rakha, affluence, prosperity) and (Khar, a thorn); and Shaikha Khukhar also, who had formerly served the Amir and had taken Lahor by fraud from Sarang Khan, fell into his hands. He accordingly imprisoned him together with his wife and family, and gave orders to sack Lahor and take the inhabitants prisoners. Then having made over Dipalpur and Multan to Khizr Khan he and said to him: "I have taken Dihli and have made a present of it to you." Leaving Lahor he proceeded by uninterrupted marches by way of Kabul to his capital Samarqand, while Khizr Khan went to his own territory (jagir).