Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1894

His real object was to gain time for the arrival of the Muhammadans for whom he had emits Apparently there was now a combined attack by the hill rajas and the Muhammadans commanded by a Mmiijah.7 Terms of some sort were made with the rajas after which the Guru with two wives and forty followers fled into the Mfilwa or country south and east of the Satlaj. [...] Wirid can only compare the doings of the Sikhs to the cruelties committed by Pharaoh upon the people of Israel or to the massacres that followed the fall of Jerusalem. [...] Efiii m s Kban by the advice of the chief men of the town gave the messengers the answer that ho could not send the powder and load they asked for as ho required the necessary carriage for his friends and followers. [...] As soon as the Sikh expedition eastwards had crossed the Jammu's 'All tumid nan faujdir of that part of the country took fright and in spite of offers by the Afghan and other loading Muhammadan to repair the walls and stand on the defensive that very night marched away from Saharanpur and took the road to Dihn. [...] In this way half of the irk& of Saharanpur fell into the Lands of the Sikhs.a Next the Sikhs wrote to Jaltil Bliin * former faujdar calling upon 1 The report of (hams in (entitled $.hanumd-din nisi) was received by the Emperor on the 18th Shn'bian 1122 (11th Oat.