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 100 TWO OF THE SLAVE KINGS ad-din to the fort of Bhakkar. Fighting continued for a month under the walls of Uchh, and on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth of Jumada-1-awwal, 625 A. H. (May 5, 1228 A. D.), the place capitulated. In the same month Malik Nasir-ad-din Kubacha drowned himself at .the fort of Bhakkar in the waters of the Indus, a few days after sending his son, Malik Ala-ad-din Bahram Shah, to wait upon Sultan Shams-ad-din. A few days later, the treasures were seized, and the remaining forces of Malik Nasir-ad-din entered the service of the conqueror. All the country down to the seashore was subdued, and Malik Sinan-ad-din Habsh, chief of Daibul and Sind, came and did homage to the Sultan. When the noble mind of the king was satisfied with the con- quest of the country, he returned to Delhi. In 627 A. H. (1230 A. D.) Balka Malik Khalji rebelled in the territories of Lakhnauti, and Sultan Shams-ad- din Altamish led thither the armies of Hindustan, and having captured the rebel, he gave the throne of Lakh- nauti to Malik Ala-ad-din Jani, and returned to his capital in the month of Rajab of the same year. In 629 A. H. (1232 A. D.) the Sultan marched forth to conquer Gwalior, and when his royal tents 'were pitched beneath the walls of the fort, Milak Deo the accursed began the hostilities. For eleven months the camp remained under the fort, until on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth of Safar, 630 A. H. (Dec. 12, 1232 A.D.), the citadel was taken. The accursed Milak Deo escaped from the fort in the night-time and fled. About seven hundred persons