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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER V.
LATER MOHAMMEDAN WRITERS.
In the *Malfúzát-i Timúrí*, or the autobiographical memoir of the great con-
queror TIMUR, which originally was written in the Jagatai Turki language, trans-
lated into Persian and dedicated to Emperor Shah Jahan who began his reign in
1628, we find only a few references which may be of interest in this connection. ¹
During his campaign the Emperor received information that Nagarkot ›was a large
and important town of Hindustán, and situated in these mountains (Siwálik)‹. As
soon as he heard this he decided to carry on war against the infidel Hindus of
Nagarkot, and the city was conquered. ›A party of the Hindus fled towards the
mountain, and I taking a body of soldiers pursued them up that lofty mountain, and
put them to the sword. After mounting to the summit I halted.‹
In the city of Jabhán . . . ›I made inquiries about the country and city of
Kashmír from men who were acquainted with it, and from them I learned that
Kashmír is an incomparable country‹. Its capital was called Naghaz and a large
river flowed through the city. ›The source of this river is within the limits of
Kashmír in a large lake, some parasanges in length and breadth, which is called
Vír-nák . . . The river passes on and joins the Chinâb above Multán. The united
waters pass below Multán and then join the Ráwi. The river Biyáh comes down
through another part and joins them, and the three united rivers fall into the Sind
or Indus in the neighbourhood of Uch. All these (united) rivers are called the Sind
or the Panjab, and this river falls into the Persian Gulf near Thatta.‹ He does not
mention the Satlej in which the Bias falls before joining the Indus. The Ravi joins
Chenab above Multan.
For a conqueror as Timur the inaccessible, and to a great extent uninhabited
countries to the north had no value and no interest whatever, and he does not even
mention them, though he who had drenched half Asia in blood certainly knew the
geography better than anyone of his time. His historian, SHEREFEDDIN from Yesd,
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