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¹ ^1 *Ghāzī*, ‘one who defeats and slays infidels in war.’ Ibn Batūtah mentions an Arabic inscription of Tughluq on the Friday mosque of Multān, which ran as follows: ‘I have encountered the Tātārs on twenty-nine occasions and defeated them: hence I am called *Malik-ul-Ghāzī*.’ From this inscription it appears that there was never peace on the frontier. The historians record only invasions in force, in the course of which the Mughuls evaded or overcame the frontier garrisons and advanced for some distance into India.