The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.183

v3.c20.183

On November 12 Mahmūd, on the advice of Balban, his lord chamberlain, left Delhi in order to recover the Punjab. He crossed the Rāvī in March, 1247, and after advancing to the banks of the Chenāb sent Balban into the Salt Range. Balban inflicted severe punishment on the Khokars and other Hindu tribes of those hills and then pushed on to the banks of the Indus, where he despoiled Jaspāl Sehra, raja of the Salt Range, and his tribe. While he was encamped on the Jhelum a marauding force of Mughuls approached the opposite bank but, on finding an army prepared to receive them, retired. There now remained neither fields nor tillage beyond the Jhelum, and Balban, unable to obtain supplies, rejoined the king on the Chenāb, and on May 9 the army arrived at Delhi.