The Nāṣirī Generations 170.4.8

170.4.8

At that period, an assemblage of contumacious persons, [consisting] of Khokhars, and other rebels of the tribes of the hills of Lohor and Jud hills had broken out into revolt. and, in the cold season of that year, the Sultan came into Hindustan, and sent that refractory race to hell, and was defeated by the Turks and Khita-is, as already noticed, it became noised abroad throughout his territories that the Sultan, Shihab-ud-Din, had disappeared in that battle, and it was unknown what had happened to him— whether he had been killed, or whether he was still living, and had gone into any foreign part. Consequently, the seditious in his territory — in all parts— raised their heads, and each stretched forth his hand towards some tract of the territory. Among the seditious was one, Rae Sal by name, who was in the hilly country, between the city of Luhawar and Ghaznah ; and, in concert with a body of Kokars, in the tract, and who always used to pay revenue to the treasury of Shihab-ud-Din, having revolted from authority and obedience, he commenced plundering and harrying that district, and completely closed the route between Luhawar and Ghaznah [Ghaznin], and in such wise that not a soul could pass along it.” [He is called Re-bal and Ran-bal in Jami'-ut-Tawarikh * but both names are doubtful, and are, probably, meant for Rae-Sal, “the ruler of the Koh-i-Jud [the Salt Range], at which the frontier of Hind commences, who had turned Musalman, and subsequently relapsed ;