CHAPTER II.

A RECITAL OF THOSE KINGS WHO, AFTER THE GOVERN­MENT OF THE AGENTS OF THE KHALIPHS OF BUNEE ABBAS, RULED THE COUNTRY OF SIND.

The historians have written, that after the monarchy of all of the denomination Bunee Oomaiyuh, the agents of the Khaliphs of Bunee Abbas, having come to Sind and Mooltan, held the government in the time of the Khaliphs Hurroom and Mamoon. A portion of the country of Hindoostan came into the hands of their agents.

At the termination of the rule of the agents of the Khaliphs of Bunee Abbas, came the time of the Khaliphat of Kadir Billah Abool Abbas Ahmed, the son of Ishay, the son of Mooytedir Billah.

In the middle of the month of Rumzan, in the year Hijree 410 (A. D. 1019), Sooltan Mahomed Gazee left his seat of government, Ghuznee, to take Hindoostan. On reaching Mooltan, he took it, also Ooch, dismissing the agent of Kadir Billah. He appointed the Wuzeer, Abdoor Ruzay, to take a force to conquer Sind. In the year Hijree 417 (A. D. 1026), he (the Wuzeer) had arranged everything at Bukkur, and departed for Sehwistan and Tatta, from whence he sent away many Arabs. Those who had families, and those of learning, he placed in the law offices, and having done this, he settled their rates of pay.

When, in the year 422 (A. D. 1030), Sooltan Mahomed Gazee died, his son Sooltan Musnood, brought up in the ways of God, sat on the throne of Ghuznee. He took into his hands all the hereditary possessions of his father, as well as Hindoostan and Sind. The people conveyed to Ghuznee the yearly tribute of produce and property, which had been laid upon them, as by custom. When, in the year 433 (A. D. 1041), he left this transitory world, and turned his face to the world of life, his son, Sooltan Mondood, adorned the throne of the kingdom, by sitting upon it. He took into his hands all the hereditary possessions. In the year 441 (A. D. 1049), turning his face to the world of futurity, Sooltan Mujdood succeeded him, who held all the hereditary lands. When the angel of death sought to take his life, then at Lahore, the apparatus of his being was taken to heaven.

After him, the turn of sovereignty came to Khoosruwi Moolk (he was of the family of the Kings of Ghuznee). The cup of prosperity remained with him for a long time; till the year Hijree 583 (A. D. 1187,) when Sooltan Ghuyas-ood-deen Ghoree came to Lahore with conquest, and, taking prisoner Khoosruwi Moolk, sent him to be confined at Ghuznee. After this, if any of the family of the Kings of Ghuznee came into the hands of Ghoree, he gave them to drink the sherbet of death.