Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c15.s2.3

v1.c15.s2.3

∗ Miskīn's topography seems to be confused. He says that Abdali crossed the Chenab and boldly advanced [this must be eastwards, towards Lahor], and that Muin set out from Lahor and on reaching that river encamped at Sodra, whence the enemy was 15 kos distant [5 kos would be more correct.] Where, then was Abdali's camp, westwards beyond the Chenāb, or south-east of the Chenāb and therefore in Muin's rear [unlikely]? This writer (a boy of nine at that time) has evidently reversed the positions of the two armies, when writing from memory 30 years later. Abdali was at Sodra and Muin some 10 or 15 miles east of him and nearer to Lahor.