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44 THE B4L0CH RACE<br />
a force of 3,000 Baloches serving under Jam Feroz ; so<br />
that it is probable that rival Baloch tribes fought on<br />
opposite sides. This is borne out by Baloch legend as<br />
to the rivalry between the Binds and Lasharis, in which<br />
the Turks under Zunu (Zu'n-nun Beg) and the King of<br />
Sibi, Jam Ninda, play an important part. 1 The Kinds were<br />
under Mir Chakur, and the Lasharis under Gwaharam, who<br />
were rivals for the hand of the fair Gohar, the owner of<br />
large herds of camels. Gohar preferred Mir Chakur, and<br />
this led to a quarrel. A horse-race, in which the Binds<br />
are stated to have won by trickery, precipitated the outbreak.<br />
Some Lasharis killed some of Gohar's young<br />
camels, and Chakur thereupon swore revenge. A desperate<br />
war began, which lasted for thirty years. At first the<br />
Binds were defeated, and they seem to have called on the<br />
Turks for aid, but after various fluctuations Chakur with<br />
most of his Binds left Sibi, and made for the Panjab.<br />
The Lasharis remained at Gandava, and some Binds maintained<br />
their position at Shoran, both places not far from<br />
Sibi in the plain of Kachhi. These events constitute the<br />
Iliad of the Baloch race, and form the subject of numerous<br />
picturesque ballads which have been handed down verbally<br />
to the present day. 2<br />
It has been shown above how Mir Chakur arrived at<br />
Multan, and how the rivalry arose between the Binds and<br />
the Dodals. The legendary lore deals with this subject<br />
also, and it is stated that Chakur joined Humayun after-<br />
wards on his march to Dehll, and at last settled down at<br />
Satgarha (in the Montgomery District of the Panjab). His<br />
tomb still exists there, and there is a considerable Bind<br />
1 One ballad represents Chakur as taking refuge with Sultan Shah<br />
Husain of Harev (i.e., Sultan Husain of Herat).<br />
2 Some of these I published with • a translation in my Sketch of the<br />
Northern Balochi Language' (J, A. S. JB., extra number, 1881), and<br />
others in ' The Adventures of Mir Chakur,' included in Temple's<br />
' Legends of the Punjab,' vol. ii. Others have been printed and<br />
translated by the Kev. T. J. L. Mayer (Fort Munro and Agra, 1900<br />
and 1901).
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