'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎388] (430/476)

3g 8 HISTORY OF SINDE.
(A. D. 671,) his son, Daher, quietly mounted the throne; but his
repose was soon disturbed by an invasion of the troops ol the Kha-
lipha of Bagdad. The causes that led to this are heretofore stated
to have been a combination of religious zeal and insulted pride ;
in explanation of which latter remark, 1 must now add, that the im
mediate successors of the Arabian prophet, had been in the yeaily
habit of dispatching people to Sinde tor the purpose of puichasing
Hindoo slave girls, who were highly esteemed for their beauty; and
that one of these parties on its return from the city of Brahminabad,
to the Bunder of Wueel was set upon by the Rajah's troops, and
all either made prisoners or killed in the conflict. Ihis happened
in the Khaliphat of Abdool Mulik, the third of the sovereigns of the
house of Oommyuh, and seems to have been intended to revenge
several unsuccessful attempts that had been previously made to con
quer Sinde, for even so early as the time of Omar and Allee, those
potentates had directed their views towards this rich kingdom, and
had sent detachments of troops to it by sea, which were invariably
repulsed.
The command of this ultimately successful expedition, on the pait
of the Khalipha, was entrusted to Hoojaj Bin Yoosoof, then governor
of the two Eeraks, but as the public service required his presence in
Persia, he deputed his son-in-law, Mohummud Bin Kasim, to carry
the orders of the Khalipha into execution. The Sindian Rajah was
advised by his ministers to await in his capital, Ooloor, the approach
of the Mohummudans; and the consequence of this was, that
his subjects became dispirited, while the enemy carried fire and
sword throughout his dominions, and crossed the Indus flushed with
victory; at length the Rajah's patience was exhausted, and on the
10th of the month of Rumzan, in the year of the Hijree 93, he
* See Chapter II. Part II.
f Now Lahoree Bunder. It appears to me to be the same as Debil, but I have
learned no meaning for it. In all the manuscripts I have read, it is clearly written
VVueel.