Tadhkirah i Anand-Ram “Mukhlish” 5: Compact made by Muhammad Shah with Nadir Shah.

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At a former epoch, the Monarch of the Universe and Emperor of Emperors, the Asylum of Islam, whose throne is that of Alexander, and whose court the heavens, the most noble and exalted sovereign, Nadir Shah (may his kingdom endure for ever!), found it necessary to send ambassadors to transact certain affairs with the officials of this suppliant in the court of heaven. We, at that time, consented to all the demands made of us; but when, at a subsequent period, Muhammad Khan Turkoman was deputed from Kandahar to recall these matters to our memory, the officers charged with the administration of this realm failed to comply with the demands of the great Emperor, and thus sowed the seeds of contention. At length the Persian army crossed the frontiers of Hindustan, and the forces of the two monarchies met in battle on the plains of Karnal. A great victory signalized the prowess of the Persian warriors. But as the illustrious Emperor, the head of the Turkoman tribes, and fount of manly virtues, treated us with kindness, we felt honoured by his friendship, which made our court the envy of Iram, and proceeded in his company to Shah-Jahanabad, where we offered for his acceptance all the treasures, jewels, and precious things of Hind. The great Emperor, complying with our request, placed a portion of our offerings within the circle of his acceptance, and, moved by the feelings of friendship, natural to the similarity of our origin and position, and by a just consideration of the favour due by a Turkoman to a descendant of the Gurgaris, gave into our charge the crown and seals of the realm of Hindustan. In return for this liberality, surpassing indeed the kindness of a father to his son, or of brother to brother, all the countries about Sind, westward of the rivers Attock and Sind, and of the Sanjar stream, which flows from the latter, namely : Peshawar, Banga-shat, the country of Kabul, Ghaznin and the Kohistan, Hazarat, the fortress of Bhakkar and Sakhar, Khudabad and Layagaon, the Derajat with the Buluch and other populations, the province of Thatta, the fortress of Rahima, the city of Badin, the parganas of Chun, Samwal, Kehran, and all other parganas dependent on the harbours, with all forts, villages and cultivated lands, parganas and ports from the source of the river Attock, the Bakarnachak pass, and the numerous branches of the river near Thatta, to where the river Sind and the Sind and Singarh rivulets flow into the ocean; together with whatever of any kind is the produce of lands watered by the river Attock and its branches, and that may lie westward of the river Sind and the Singarh rivulet; all these have we detached from our dominions, and annexed to those of Persia. Henceforth the officers of that powerful State shall collect the revenue and exercise all authority in the aforesaid countries, and the people, great and small, dwellers in towns and in plains, tillers of the soil, men of every degree, shall be subject to their laws, and the ministers of this eternal government shall no longer have sway among them. But the fortress of Dawar, the cities of Tuhari and Bindrawach, and all the countries eastward of the rivers Attock and Sind and the Singarh rivulet, these remain attached to the kingdom of Hind.