Muntakhab al-lubab 142.14

142.14

For eight or nine months, and from two or three days' march of Dehli to the environs of Lahore, all the towns and places of note were pillaged by these unclean wretches, and trodden under foot and destroyed. Men in countless numbers were slain, the whole country was wasted, and mosques and tombs were razed. After leaving Lahore, they returned to the towns and villages of Shadhura and Karnal, the faujdar of which place was slain after resisting to the best of his ability. Now especially great havoc was made. A hundred or two hundred Hindus and Musulmans who had been made prisoners were made to sit down in one place, and were slaughtered. These infidels had set up a new rule, and had forbidden the shaving of the hair of the head and beard. Many of the ill-disposed low-caste Hindus joined themselves to them, and placing their lives at the disposal of these evil-minded people, they found their own advantage in professing belief and obedience, and they were very active in persecuting and killing other castes of Hindus. The revolt and the ravages of this perverse sect were brought under the notice of His Majesty, and greatly troubled him; but he did not deem its suppression so urgent as the putting down of the Rajput rebellion, so the royal armies were not sent against them at present. Giving the Rajput difficulty his first attention, the royal army marched from Ujjain towards the homes of the Rajputs.