The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c13.26

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² The Hindu force is said to have come from the hills of "Balala and Makala"—the last name being, according to Raverty, identical with Makhiala, the local name of the Salt Range; Raverty: trans. Tab. Nas. p. 537, note; also, see Juwaini, II, p. 143-44; en Nessawi, who calls the Hindu chief Chatar Sal, states that he himself advanced with a great force and just when Mangbarni was arranging to recross the Indus in order to avoid the "more cruel Hindus", fell upon him. In the resulting battle Chatar Sal is however said to have been killed and the Hindus dispersed; French trans. by Scheffer, p. 142. Cf. Alfi, f. 559b, and Ferishta, II, p. 315, for a slightly different account.