History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c14.42

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We find here many noted Rajput names such as Samma, Sahta, Rathor, Solunki etc. but we do not find the name of Dāhar in the above. The family of Dāhar appears to have left Sind altogether and lived subsequently in Rajputana, the Panjab and Kashmir. The towns noted in Sind Hindu history still survived such as Alor, Brāhmaṇābād, Jhim ( Hydrabad ), Schwan but during Mahomedan times, new towns became of note such as Ucha, Bakkar and Thatta. The last especially supplanted Debal on the seacoast and the latter is not found mentioned hereafter at all. It must be noted that during the reign of Haroun-Al-Rashid or before, about 780 A. D. Sind was visited by a great earthquake which destroyed Brāhmanābād and Alor and other old towns and which changed the course of the Indus also for it flows now to the west of Nerun where-as in Hindu times it flowed to the east of it. It may therefore be said that even nature changed the face of the country. Many people were converted to Mahomedanism including some princes. But the population generally remained Hindu. Mahomedan saints, however, attracted now the public attention and gaze and naturally supplanted the Buddhistic monks. Noted saints have still their holy places and mosques in Multan and other towns which are revered both by Hindus and Mahomedans. The early religious zeal and sincerity of the Arabs was undoubtedly remarkable and Sheikh and Sayyad saints could not but be attributed as great Ajmat or spiritual power as the Buddhist.