Riyaz al-salatin 41.5

41.5

otherwise whatever will befal you, will be the consequence of your misconduct." The grocers said : " We carried food-grains to the camp of Tughral, and now we are returning from there. Between you and Tughral, there is a distance of half a farsakh. To-day he is encamping there; to-morrow he will march to Jajnagar." Malik Muhammad Tirandaz sent the grocers with two troopers to Malik Barbak Baras, and sent word that after ascertaining the truth from the grocers, he should march up swiftly, so that Tughral might not march to the Vilayet of Jajnagar which is in the kingdom of Bengal, and leaguing with the people of that part, might not hide himself in a jungle. And he himself with troopers went forward, and saw the tent of Tughral, and his army resting in false security, and his elephants and horses grazing about. Availing himself of the opportunity, he rushed with his cavalry towards the camp of Tughral. No one opposed their progress, fancying that they were officers attached to the army of Tughral. When they arrived in front of Tughral's tent, all of a sudden drawing their swords, they killed every one they found in the Audience-Hall, and shouted out that the kingdom of Bengal pertained to the Empire of Balban. Tughral fancied that the Emperor had himself arrived.