Later Mughals v1.c6.s21.5

v1.c6.s21.5

On the 23rd Rabi II. 1123 (9th June, 1711) Hamid Khan Bahadur returned to head-quarters, then at Hushyarpur, and at the same time it was reported that Isa Khan Main had inflicted a severe defeat on the Sikhs. As the victor was a protege of the eldest Prince, Jahandar Shah, that Prince received robes of honour as a compliment for the victory. Five days later (28th Rabi II. 1123, 14th June, 1711), Muhammad Amin Khan Chin, and Rustam Dil Khan, wrote that, near Parsur (or Parsaror), they had also defeated the Guru, who had fled without any followers into the hill-country of Jammu. In these operations against the Sikhs, Rustam Dil Khan is said to have committed great excesses against the inhabitants of Kathotha, Barwal,‡ and other parganas, seizing many persons on the wrongful accusation of being Sikhs, and giving them to his soldiers in lieu of pay. These latter sold the poor wretches in the horse-market (nakhkhas) at Lahor.§