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A young and beautiful woman has come, at the dead of night, to visit a prince like you, and has awakened you from your sweet slumber, and wishes to lie with you under the same sheet, even a beauty like myself, whose amorous blandishments and gestures can fascinate the world, and for union with whom the whole world is mad. This should have revealed itself fully to your mind, and should not have remained concealed from it. You should consider this good luck to be a godsend till the dawning of the day.’ Jaisiah said: “O princess, we dare not associate with any woman other than our own lawfully married wife. We can never do such a thing, as we are Brahmins and pious ascetics. Such a wicked deed is not agreeable to the moral taste of great and respectable persons or pious men of learning or good and virtuous people. Have a care that you do not defile me with such a sin.” Howsoever much Janki grew importunate, Jaisiah paid no attention to her, and firmly rejected her proposal. ### [47.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.2) At length when she thought she would not succeed in the gratification of her wish, she said: “O Jaisiah, you have disappointed me in the gratification of my heart’s desire, my natural inclination and my soul’s yearning. I now consider it proper, first, to ruin you and then to burn myself in fire.’ So saying she returned to her house, and threw herself on her bed, and was restless and agitated the whole night like the fumes of incense, and was reciting the following couplets: A quatrain—“This calamity of your love has burnt my heart; and this lamp of your beauty has enlightened my soul. Deal justly with me, or else I will emit a sigh; and burn myself, yourself, and the whole town in one confused mass.” The next day when the planets issued from the heavenly towers of constellations, and the black cloth of night was torn asunder, Janki still remained sleeping in her bed. The intoxication of liquor had mixed itself up with the intoxication of separation from her beloved, and so she remained in her bed up to noon. King Dahar was so fond of his sister Janki, that until she came and he saw her face, he would not eat or drink. He had great regard for her and treated her with great respect. He now rose and came to her house, and finding her sad and thoughtful enquired: “O sister, O princess, what is the © your meal... Tat When Muhammad Kásim received this order on his arrival at Udhápur, he at once asked his men to put him into a fresh hide. ### [47.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.3) This was done and the living parcel was placed in a box and carried away. Muhammad Kásim thus in a short time breathed his last. After his death the governors, appointed to different divisions of the country, remained in charge of them. As for the box, it was taken to the Khalífah. The men who had brought it, at first requested the chief attendant, to inform Walíd son of Abdul Malik son of Marwán that Muhammad Kásim had been brought. “Is he dead or alive?” inquired the Khalífah. “He is dead” was the reply. “He got your order in the town of Udhápur, and immediately he enclosed himself in raw leather. After two days he entrusted his soul to God and went to the everlasting abode. The rulers and governors appointed by him to different places have remained secure in their possessions and are trying their best to administer the country well in the name of the Khalífah, whom they duly mention (with praise) in the orations and addresses that are delivered from the pulpits.” Then the Khalífah raised the lid, and opened the box. The two girls were also called to be present there. The Khalífah had a stick of green emerald in his hand at that time, and he placed it on the teeth of the dead body, and said: “O daughters of Rái Dáhar, look how our orders are promptly obeyed by our officers; they are ever anxious to carry them out strictly. As soon as he got our letter in Kanúj, he sacrificed his dear life at our behest.” ### [47.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.4) Hearing this, the virgin girl, Jánki, removed her veil from her face and placing her head on the ground, said: “May the king live long, and may his power and dignity increase and last for many many years! The sovereign of the time, who is supposed to be a perfect "paragon of wisdom, should consider it his duty, to weigh and test (like gold) whatever comes to his ears whether from a friend or a foe, and when he finds it to be true beyond doubt, then only (and not before) is he justified in issuing decisive orders, lest he be punished by the divine wrath and held up to scorn by human tongues. It is true that your command is strictly obeyed, but it never occurred to your majesty to make a preliminary enquiry. The fact is that Muhammad Kasim was like a brother or a son to us; he never touched us, your slaves, and our chastity was safe with him. But in as much as he brought ruin on the king of Hind and Sind, desolated the kingdom of our fathers and grandfathers, and degraded us from princely rank to slavery, we have, with the intention of being revenged on him and of bringing ruin and degradation on him in return, misrepresented the matter and spoken a false thing to your majesty against him. Now our object is gained, for by means of this deceit and falsehood, we have taken our revenge. ### [47.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.5) As for your majesty's passing an urgent and irresistable order, if the excess of lust and passion had not eclipsed and clouded your majesty's reason and judgment, you would have thought it proper to enquire into the matter first and would not have made yourself blameworthy and repentant. As for Muhammad Kasim himself if he had had any sense in him he would have travelled in the usual way, till he had arrived within a day's journey from here, and then enclosed himself in raw leather, so that after enquiries had been made he would have been acquitted and would not have died." ### [47.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.6) When the Khalifah heard all this, he was so much overpowered by grief, that he bit the back of his hand. The Princess Janki then once more attempted to speak, and looking at the Khalifah and finding that he was much enraged, said: "The king has committed a great blunder, since for the sake of two slave girls he has killed a man who captured a hundred thousand noble girls like us, brought down seventy kings, who were rulers of Hind and Sind from a royal throne to a bier, and built mosques and minarets in place of idol-houses and temples. Even if it be assumed that he did some slight mischief or was guilty of an indent, act, Muhammad Kasim should not have been killed simply on the slanderous word of a malicious individual.” The Khalifah immediately ordered the two sisters to be buried alive in a wall. From that time up to our own days, the banner of Islam has been rising higher and higher and gaining greater and greater glory day by day. May the sovereign of highest dignity and of the holiest names, keep the past kings of Islam drowned in the ocean of His mercy, and the present kings steadfast on the thrones of their kingdoms, as long as the universe lasts and time continues, and until the period of life, given to Adam’s children, comes to its close; and may He with his divine grace and help, protect the banners of Islam, through their power and awe, from accidental misfortunes and evil auguries of the time. ### [47.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.7) This book which bears the title of ‘The highway of religion and the glory of the high and great chief the eye of the kingdom’ is one of the compositions of Arab men of learning and moral philosophers, on the conquest of the country of Hind and Sind. It is a book adorned with beautiful thoughts and varieties of nature, with wonders of wisdom and curiosities of knowledge and with excellencies of hearts and singularities of mind. It is nectar for the hearts of friends and a garden for human beings and spirits, It is based on the foundation of laws and of Government and on the strength of constitutional administration. It contains eloquent discourses on religious and state matters and treats of territorial and national peculiarities. As it occupied a high rank in the very superior Arabic language and in the accomplished Hijazic tongue, all the princes of Arabia derived encouragement and excessive pleasure from reading it. But since it was enveloped in Arabic, and was made of the ornament and beauty of Persian idiom, it could not become popular with Persia or other non-Arab countries. No dresser of the people of Fars (Persia) had (before this translation) dressed and adorned the bride of this book of conquest, or prepared garments for her in the manufactory of just and philosophical words, or given her any ornament from the treasury of wisdom, and none of them had galloped a horse in this field of eloquence or in this meadow of rhetoric. ### [47.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.47.8) The events of the days of yore crowded in my mind, and the troops of tragical occurrances and accidents of the time assembled in the ship of my chest. Different kinds of misery and anxiety are hard by, but there are no means of help and patronage available. Different varieties of danger have settled themselves around (me), but the means of avoiding or averting them are uncertain. Thanks to God, the book is finished. Verse. If any mistake has crept in while copying this book, O reader, do not be angry with me or blame me for it. Verse. 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