The Book of Akbar 331.4

331.4

When Jalandhar became the station of the sublime camp, Iskandar, who upreared in that province the standards of strife and sedition, withdrew to the hill-country of the Siwaliks, which was his appointed asylum and permanent residence, in order that he might stay there for a while and wait upon events. The victorious army, in the hope of a final good, and of extirpating once for all his sedition, applied itself to putting him down. Without regard to the difficulties of the march and the intricacies of the country, it followed Sikandar into the hill-country of the Siwaliks, which is a world apart, and the refuge of the disaffected and headstrong spirits of India, and encamped at the town of Désihah. From there the army proceeded to the pleasant town of Dahmiri and made it a rose-garden of dominion and a springtide of fortune.