The Nāṣirī Generations 278.4

278.4

In the year 636 H., however, they suddenly and unexpectedly attacked Malik Saif-ud-Din, Hasan, and he fled discomfited from Karman, Ghaznin, and Banian, and came towards the Multan territory, and the country of Sind. At that period the throne of Hindustan was adorned by the Sultan Raziyyat — May she rest in peace! — the daughter of the august Sultan, Shams-ud-Din, I-yal-timish; and the eldest son of Malik Saif-ud-Din, Hasan, the Karlugh, presented himself before the Dihli Court, and, by way of beneficence, the territory [fief] of Baran was assigned to him. Some time passed, when, unexpectedly, he left it; and, without the permission of the Sultan, returned to the presence of his father. The first invasion of the Indo-Scythians must have caused a very general displacement of the ruling races The vanquished would naturally have sought refuge in the less accessible districts around, and to this period, therefore, I would refer the settlement of the Awans and Janjuhas in the Salt Range to the south, and the Gahars in the hilly tracts of Pharwala and Dangali to the south-east” [but what have they to do with the Karlugh Turks?]. “Of their subsequent history but little is recorded; we know only that they were divided into several branches, and that they all became Muhammadans.