The Nāṣirī Generations 185.3

185.3

According to the Taj-ul-Ma’asir, Kaba-jah was tributary to I-yal-timish, and the tribute was in arrears. At the advice of his Wazir, I-yal timish marched from Dihli towards Lahor to enforce payment ; others say, and more probably, that it was for the possession of the province of Lahor— in Jamadi-ul-Awwal, 613 H. [The Tabakat-i-Akbari, Buda’uni, and some others, make a great blunder here. They state correctly enough that war arose between these two rulers about Lahor, and that Shams-ud-Din, I-yal-timish, was always victorious ; but add that, on the last occasion, in 614 H., Shams-ud-Din moved against him in person, and invested Uchchah, and then proceed to mention Kaba-jah’s death, which happened ten years or more after, thus confounding or mixing up the two events. Firishtah is completely at sea about these events in Kaba-jah’s life.] Kaba-jah with his forces was encamped on the Biah [the Bias of Europeans] to defend its passage. Arrived on its banks, I-yal-timish, on the 14th of Shawwal, began to cross with his army, without the aid of boats [this in Elliot, vol. ii. page 571, is called crossing the Indus !], at the ford near a village named Chambah [?] ; but we must remember that the present course of the Biah is not what it was then. In those days it separated into two branches at a village named Lowah-wal, one branch flowing by Kusur, Kabulah, Kha-e, and Hujrah-i-Shah Mukim, passed about a mile and a half N.W. of the fort of Dibal-pur, and fell into the river Ghara.