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2 the five rivers ; or they may seem the forefathers of the present
3 Sepaide, or the famed Kurls and the wandering* Jwnn, and all
4 those called or coming- under the denomination of Barr Loke —
5 all or most of whom to this day just lead the same land of life
6 as did the former Nazoos and Gethes, and may be said to be
7 still the most able and active race in the Punjaub.
8 To return to the subject, the son of Therm Kurn, Arathunge
9 Kurn, under his leader, Rajah Maanaa or Mahnahook, distin-
10 guished himself by many feats of valour, and much blood was
11 spilt on both sides in defending their country and resisting
12 the invaders who had sent at different times large bodies of
13 troops from the Indus to invade the Rhahauk territory.
14 The east boundary of the Rhahauk country was the Sutlej,
15 and its west the Jhelum — or the low range of hills on
16 which the present fort of Rhotas stands, where the Khaun-
17 dores joined it ; — on the north the mountain range, and on
18 the south the Nazoo wilds and wastes, whose northern
19 bounds may be considered about the present Amenabad,
20 Lahore, Kussoor, Gujerawalla, and Guzerat. However the
21 Rhahauks were, by the numerous and powerful attacks of their
22 allied enemies, obliged to give way, and at this juncture it was
23 to them a happy circumstance that by the arrival of three
24 different great and powerful princes at different periods from
25 the east and south, their country was partially saved, and a
26 strong check put on the advance of the invading army. How-
27 ever their cavalry were still accustomed to scour the coun-
28 try as far as even the very gates of Rhahauk. But ulti-
29 mately all this and Mahnahook' s dread of their presence subsi-
30 ded on the arrival from the far east of, it is said, 30,000 Goorj-
31 berdaurs and Boogjoods, chiefly mounted on buffaloes, with
32 a like number of Teerendauz, chiefly mounted on elephants,
33 and a numerous body of slingers (Kummanees), spearmen,
34 &c. &c. and all headed in person by the great Porso or
35 Phorso, supposed chief or Rajah of Adjudea, a great, pow-