Timur ko dauda dauda ke pita dograchads ne.
<Sourcehttps://en.everybodywiki.com/Battle_of_Jammu_(1399)https://en.everybodywiki.com/Battle_of_Jammu_(1399)>Timur described inhabitants of Jammu as independent and warlike.>The people of Jammu sent off their wives and children from their villages to the tops of the mountains, and they fortified themselves in their villages<Battle>It is estimated that Gurkani Forces outnumbered the Dogra. Despite being outnumbered, Mal Dev decided to go on with the offensive strategy.>Between January 24 and February 23, when he reached the neighbourhood of Jammu he had fought twenty battles and gained as many victories, and conquered several forts.>On February 26th Timur again marched, and came up opposite to the city of Jammu, and set up camp. He probably encamped in the Satwari plain where "there was grain and grass enough between the tents to feed the animals.">As recorded in Zafarnama (Yazdi biography), Timur himself states that the Raja and his forces had taken their post in the river valley, probably in a horse-shoe shape from the present Pir-Kho to the Tawi bridge. Timur's forces could not plunder Jammu town without coming into conflict with the defenders. The battle began with a large-scale attack from the Gurkanis. Maharaja Mal Dev and his cavalries fought and successfully penetrated higher Turk ranks giving him the opportunity to cut off the water supply of Timur's army which led them being tired and starving. Seeing the scenario, Timur decided to retreat.<Aftermath>The tradition recorded by Ganesh Dass and G.C. Smyth affirms that it was Mal Dev, who was contemporary of Timur and who died in about 1400 A.D. The Dogra folk ballads give a different version of Mal Dev's role in the affair. In one of the legends it is narrated that Mal Dev organised a confederacy of Rajas against Timur and fought the invaders in defending Kangra, and died there a heroic death. Another ballad lauds Mal Dev's terrible battle with the invaders in which Timur was badly repulsed. However Timurid sources claim Timur defeated and forcibly converted 'Raja Jammu' before returning to Samarkand. It is probable that the "Raja of Jammu" which Timur's men captured in ambush was not the Raja, but only a vassal of the King of Jammu, who, along with 'fifty rais and Rajputs' might have come down the valley of the Tawi on way to the plain country lying across it, and fell into ambush and was forcibly converted to Islam, and not the King of Jammu. That is why the great Rakwal, Chandel and Chauhan Rajput dynasties did not hesitate to marry their daughters to Mal Dev's successor. In case of Mal Dev's conversion to Islam this could not have been possible in Rajputs, who were overzealous for the preservation of the purity of their blood.
Timur whose forces razed delhi could not even touch jammu. He had to cook up cope of fake victory and converting some petty chief when in reality his starving forces had to flee back to Samarkand.
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And what source you got? Timur's biography? In which he himself claims people of jammu were independent and warlike and that he converted some local raja he did not even know name of.
