The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.220
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.220
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About the year 1279 the Mughuls again began to appear in north-western India, and in one of their incursions even crossed the Sutlej, but though they harried the upper Punjab Delhi had little to apprehend from them, for domestic enemies had now been crushed, and a force of seventeen or eighteen thousand horse composed of the contingents of Muhammad Khān from Multān, Bughrā Khān from Sāmāna, and Malik Bektars from Delhi so severely defeated them as to deter them from again crossing the Sutlej.