Later Mughals v1.c6.s23.t3: The March to Lahor.
Later Mughals v1.c6.s23.t3
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The March to Lahor.
v1.c6.s23.t3.1
On the 7th March, 1711, the camp was moved from Bhadole to Abdullahpur. After some days spent in fishing in the Shah-nahr or royal canal and in elephant fighting, the march was resumed, the next stages being Budhawali, Sahaura, Rasur, Fathpur and Dheripur, and four other halts, reaching Rupar near the banks of the Satlaj on the 30th April. They moved nearer the river on the 2nd May, and the Emperor crossed the stream on the 17th May by a bridge of boats. A move to Minnatpur was made on the 23rd and to Naushara on the 25th. After halts at Akbarpur and Dharmpur, they reached Hushyarpur on the 9th June, and on the 23rd Bahadur Shah crossed the Bias by a bridge of boats to the village of Sahu. During the night heavy rain fell, the bridge was broken, and some of the boats carried away. Prince Azim-ush-shan's camp and the advance-tents were left on the other side, and could not cross till four days afterwards. After twenty-one days spent close to the Bias river, the camp was removed to Narayanpur in pargana Kanu-wahan, described as the imperial hunting-preserve of the Panjab. A halt was made at the town of Kanu-wahan on the 17th July, they were at Kalanaur on the 29th, Jamari on the 30th July, and Panj Karanwe on the 3rd August. The final march was to the neighbourhood of Lahor which was reached on the 11th August, 1711. [Kamwar].
v1.c6.s23.t3.2
The fortress and palace in Lahor city were not entered. The Emperor and his four sons remained outside the city in their encampment, as if they were still on the march. The only difference was that the draught cattle and beasts of burden were dismissed, much of the impedimenta sent into store, and many of the *karkhanas* or manufacturing establishments which accompanied the camp were sent elsewhere. The imperial encampment was pitched near the village of Anwala, not far from the bank of the river Ravi. Azim-ush-shan took up a position between the Emperor and the river, and surrounded himself by a sort of fortification made out of the carts in which he carried his treasure. Prince Muizz-ud-din's camp lay near the market-place of Parwezabad facing the city. Prince Rafi-ush-shan was close to the river bank near Dharmus Bagh, while Prince Jahan Shah went to some distance and encamped in the open plain near the tomb of the saint Shah Mir Khush (3 miles s.e. of the city). [Qasim 37, Iradat.]