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42 THE BALOCH RACE<br />
Kot Karor to Dhankot, evidently on condition of military<br />
service. Other Baloches, hearing of this, came flocking<br />
in, and gradually obtained possession of the whole country<br />
between Sltpur and Dhankot—that is to say, the present<br />
district of Muzafargayh between the Indus and the Chanab.<br />
The chief authorities for these events are Firishta's history<br />
of the Kings of Multan and the Tabakat-i-Akbari. 1 Firishta<br />
calls the newcomers both Dodais and Baloches, and says<br />
that they came from Kech and Makran. Soon after this<br />
two brothers belonging to the Samma tribe, Jam Bayazid<br />
and Jam Ibrahim, who had quarrelled with Jam Nanda<br />
(or Nizamu'd-dln), the Samma ruler of Sindh, came as<br />
refugees to Shah Husain, and also obtained jagirs—viz.,<br />
Uchh and Shor (i.e., Shorkot, now in the Jhang district).<br />
Jam Bayazid became a person of great influence and commander<br />
of the Shah's armies. After Shah Husain's death<br />
and the accession of Shah Mahmud he went into rebellion.<br />
A temporary reconciliation took place, but there seems to<br />
have been a good deal of friction between Malik Sohrab<br />
Dodai and Jam Bayazid. This circumstance is connected<br />
with the second settlement of Baloches under Mir Chakar<br />
Bind, whose name is celebrated among all Baloches up to<br />
the present day.<br />
Mir Chakur Kind 2 and his son Mlrza Shahdad (or, accord-<br />
ing to some, his two sons Shahld and Shuhda) came from<br />
Slvi (Slbi) seeking service and lands. Malik Sohrab Dodai,<br />
out of jealousy, prevented Shah Mahmud from accepting<br />
his services ; whereupon Jam Bayazid took up his cause,<br />
and assigned him lands from his own jaglr of Uchh.<br />
According to the legends, Mir Chakur had two sons named<br />
Shahzad and Shaihak. Shahzad was of miraculous origin,<br />
his mother having been overshadowed by some mysterious<br />
1 E. D., v. 470.<br />
2 The name is variously written. Briggs, in his translation, gives<br />
Mir Jakar Zand ; the lithographed Lucknow edition of Firishta<br />
gives ^ji.yj£ oUe J** ;<br />
while the British Museum MS., No. 6572, Or. f.<br />
614, gives it as 4Uij£y*.j*». The Tarlkli-i-Sher Shahl (in E. D., iv.<br />
389-397) gives Chakur Bind correctly.
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