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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.1.6

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 22.1.6

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22.1.6

And in the year 626 H. Arab Ambassadors came from Egypt bringing for him a robe of honour and titles, and out of joy at this they built triumphal arches in the city and held banquets. And in this same year the tidings arrived of the death of his son Sultan Nasiru-d-Din, Governor of Lakhnauti, and the Sultan, after completing the duties of mourning, gave his name (i.e., Nasiru-d-Din) to his younger son after whom the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri is named. In the year 627 H., he proceeded against Lakhnauti and quieted the disturbances of those regions, and after entrusting the government of that place to Izzu-l-Mulk Malik ‘Alau-d-Din Jani returned to the capital and in the year 629 H. reduced the fortress of Gwaliar. Malik Taju-d-Din the Secretary of State, wrote the following quatrain upon the taking of that fort, and they engraved it upon stone — Every fort which the king of kings conquered He conquered by the help of God and the aid of the faith That fortress of Kalewar and that strong castle He took in the year six hundred and thirty