Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.1.4
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 30.1.4
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30.1.4
In short, at midday just as the courier of the heaven reached the country of noon, and the day of that world-conquering Emperor was approaching its decline, suddenly a band made its appearance from the direction of those infidels. The Khan-i Ghazi at that same moment mounted his horse and issued an order in obedience to which all the cavalry and the body servants and retinue and retainers, in accordance with the mandate 'Kill the infidels all of them', drew up in a line a hundred times stronger than the rampart of Sikandar. After ordering the right wing and dressing the left wing, he himself of noble qualities, stood in the centre like the moon and the host of the stars, ready for the jihad, while the Tatar infidels, let confusion and dismay come upon them, crossed the river of Euhor, and confronted the ranks of the Muslims.