The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.20

v3.c21.20

Recent successes encouraged Jasrat the Khokar again to invade the kingdom. He had defeated, and slain in battle his old enemy, Rāja Bhīm of Jammū and now overran and plundered the districts of Dīpālpūr and Lahore. Sikandar Tuhfa marched against him, but retired before him, leaving him free to prepare for more extensive aggressions. At about the same time it was reported that ‘Alā-ul-Mulk, governor of Multān, had died and that Shaikh ‘Alī, the deputy in Kābul of Suyurghātmish, the fourth son of Shāhrukh, who had succeeded to the greater part of Tīmūr’s empire, proposed to invade and ravage the western Punjab and Sind. Malik Mahmūd Hasan was sent to Multān, and restored some degree of confidence to the people who had been plundered by Shaikh ‘Alī’s troops.