Twilight of the Sultanate c10.s2.18

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c10.s2.18

Shaikh 'Alī left Bhatinda devastating on the way most of the districts of Rai Fīrōz. He crossed the Sutlej at Tirhārā, in Ludhiana district,⁴⁸ took a large number of prisoners from Jalandhar to Jāran-Manjūr,⁴⁹ and then returned along the banks of the Beas. Crossing the Beas in April, 1431 (Rajjab) he arrived at Lahore, where its governor Malik Sikandar saved the country from molestation by "paying him the usual customary annual tribute".⁵⁰

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