The Nāṣirī Generations 170.4.10

170.4.10

as that of his return from Khwarazm, and his expedition against the Khokhars], as it was required in the preparations making for the invasion of Khita. [Jami’-ut-Tawarikh says, after the Sultan had taken his slave Lek-Tal [or Lik-Tal], who had taken possession of Multan, and had put him to death, and disposed of that affair, he despatched Muhammad, son of Abi ’Ali, to Lahor and Multan as governor, in order that he should send the tribute of those territories, which for the last two years were in arrears, to provide him with funds for his campaign against Khita.] Amir Muhammad wrote, in reply, that the revenue of the years [sic] mentioned was ready, but that the Kokars [Khokhars], and Rae Sal, the chief of the Jibal-i-Judi [the Jud Hills] [Taj-ul-Ma’asir does not make the distinction between two different tribes, but says the sons of Kokar, 'Bakah and Sarkah— in another MS.], had so closed the lower route to Ghaznah [neither the carried on holy war as prescribed by the canons of Islam, and set a river of the blood of those people flowing. When Bolan nor the Khaibar, the two by some supposed sole routes into Afghanistān, are referred to], that not a person could proceed by it.