Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s2.11

c19.s2.11

But according to all chronicles Jasrat was Khokhar and not Gakkhar. Besides, the time-table of the campaign is far too short for Mubārak Shāh to go to Rawalpindi. On 9 October (11 Shawwāl) he is on the banks of the Sutlej. He sends his officers up the river and himself follows. They attack Jasrat who flees. The Sultan collects all his baggage and issues in his pursuit. Crossing the Beas and the Ravi he marches through Jammu territory whose Raja comes to pay respects.⁸ After crossing the Chenāb and ravaging Jasrat’s stronghold near Jammu, he marches back and arrives at Lahore early in January, 1422 (Muharram, 825=26 December, 1421 to 24 January, 1422).⁹ The time taken by Mubārak will not be sufficient for a distant campaign to Parhālā near Rawalpindi. Moreover, no chronicler mentions his crossing the Jhēlum.