Riyaz al-salatin 41.3

41.3

Sultan Ghiasu-d-din, on hearing this bad news, became dejected and anxious, and made kingly efforts, and boldly resolved to march out himself, and ordered that numerous boats should be kept ready in the rivers Jon and Ganges, and he himself on the pretext of a hunting excursion went towards Sanam and Samanah. Appointing Malik Sunaj to be governor of Samanah, he took his young son, Bughra Khan, with a select force in his own company, and passed from Samanah to Doab. Leaving Maliku-l-Umara Fakhru-d-din Kotwal to rule as Viceroy at Dehli in his absence, he crossed the Ganges, and not heeding that it was the rainy season, by forced marches, proceeded towards Lakhnauti. Tughral who in this interval had collected his efficient troops, marched in state towards Jajnagar with his treasures and a large army, and planned to take it and to encamp there, and subsequently to return to Lakhnauti, when the Emperor would return to Dehli. But when the Emperor reached Lakhnauti, after staying there a few days, he despatched General Hassamu-d-din Vakil-dar Barbag (Secretary of State), who was the grandfather of the author of the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, to subjugate the kingdom of Lakhnauti, and the Emperor himself marched towards Jajnagar, to chastise Tughral.