1 A. D. 180G. RUNJEET CROSSES THE SUTLEJ. 59
2 The Rajas of Puteeala and Xaba were at fend on
3 account of some lands, situated between the village of
4 Doluddee and the town and fort of Naba. The Jheend
5 chief. Raja Bhag Singh, was the ally of Xaba, and so
6 were the Ladwa and Kythal chiefs, but their anited forces
7 uere unequal to a contest with their powerful neighbour
8 of Puteeala. In this extremity, Bhag Singh, of Jheend,
9 the maternal uncle of Runjeet, was deputed to invite
10 his assistance to the weaker party ; and, the Dusera was
11 no sooner over, than the ruler of Labor hastened across
12 the Sutlej to take part in this quarrel. He passed the
13 river at Loodeeana, and mastering the place, presented it
14 to Raja Bhag Singh in exclusion of Ranee Nooroon-
15 XiSSA, mother of Rao Ilias, to whom it had belontred.
16 Saneewal was next seized from another defenceless
17 widow,* this class of occupants being regarded by Run-
18 jeet as his legitimate prey. The place was given in
19 Jageer to MohkumChund Dewan, but restored after-
20 wards on realization of a Xuzurana of 30,000 Rupees.
21 Driving the Puteeala troops out of Doluddee, the invader
22 approached Munsoorpoor, where Maha Raja Saheb
23 Singh, successor to Umur Singh, was in position with his
24 main body. The Maha Raja, by a sum of money and the
25 present of apiece of artillery, propitiated the Labor chief,
26 and JuswuNT Singh, of Xaba, contributed also to satis-
27 fy his cupidity, whereupon he was induced to remove the
28 scourge of his ill-organized all-ravaging army back into
29 the Punjab. Doluddee was restored to Puteeala at the
30 intercession of Raja Bhag Singh, and Rlnjeet Singh
31 taking the opportunity to pass the Dewalee and perform
32 his ablutions in the holy tank of Thanesur, re-crossed the
33 • M\EE LucHjHMEE, widow of SoDHA SiXGH— She invited the aid of
34 Ri NJEET Singh, being at issue with her son, who held her at the time in
35 conliuemeut.
36 H 2