Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.1.4

22.1.4

The Sultan by the mere reading of that matla' learnt it by heart and repeated it, and when the poem was finished he asked How many couplets does this Qasidah contain? The answer was fifty and three. He thereupon ordered them to give him fifty-three thousand white tangahs.] Sultan Shamsu-d-Din in [the year] 623, H. made an attack upon Ranthanbhur and having brought an army thither reduced that fortress, and in the year 624 H. having directed a large army to attack and capture the fort of Mandur, brought that fort together with the Siwálik hills into the circle of his conquest and returned to Dehli, and in this same year Amír Ruhani who was one of the most learned men of that time came to Dehli from Bukhárá in the affair of Changíz Khán, and wrote several brilliant odes of congratulation upon these victories, of which the following verses are an extract. The faithful Gabriel carried the tidings to the dwellers in heaven, From the record of victories of the Sultán of the age Shamsu-’d-Dín, Saying—‘Oh ye holy angels raise upon the heavens, Hearing this good tidings, the canopy of adornment, That from the land of the heretics the Sháhansháh of Islám Has conquered a second time the fort resembling the sky; The Sháh, holy warrior and Ghází, whose hand and sword The soul of the lion of repeated attacks praises. And there are also other many charming poems attributed to him, of which the following ode is one: