[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 30.1.3 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.1.3 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 30.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [30.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1.3) Accordingly he very strongly fortified a large village which was close to the river, and made such dispositions that when the infidels came against it, both rivers should be in the rear of his army, so that neither could any man of his own army turn in flight nor could any injury be inflicted upon his array by that troublesome horde and in very truth that choice of position was the acme of caution and the very height of skill in that world-conquering Khan, but since when Fate is adverse the thread of all plans becomes tangled, and the orderly row of enterprises becomes disordered, He who falls in with evil fortune by the way, His affairs fall out just as his enemies desire. His Fortune like a mad man loses the right way, His senses, like the nightblind, fall into the well. By chance that day the Moon and the Sun, which may be compared to kings, were suspended in the sign of the Fish, and Mars, whose blood-red aspect is entirely due to the blood of the princes of the people, had drawn out from the quiver of that sign the arrow of disappointment and the dart of disobedience against that Orion (white) girdled Khan, who was like Leo coming forth from a watery sign; the house of fear and calamity and the proofs of sedition and signs of harm thus became evidently manifest, while the hint and indication of the proverb "The place of Fate truly becomes strait" became written on the consecutive pages (of his history). - [Previous: 30.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1.2) - [Next: 30.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1.4) - [Up: 30.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.30.1.3) · Pramāṇa