Muntakhab al-tawarikh 31.4

31.4

The son also sent to his father an equal number of Persian horses, and other kinds of valuable articles and cloth goods and rare and unique presents such that the accountant of imagination is unable to estimate their number and value, and all sorts of delight and pleasure burst upon the Amirs of Ghiyasu-d Din and Nasiru-d Din and Mu'izzu-d Din, and upon high and low of the armies, and the Maliks of both parties exchanged visits. Mir Khusru relates in detail this meeting in the Qiranu-s Sa'dain, and in another place he writes in a qasida: Hail! to the happy era when two troths are as one Behold! the son is a monarch, the father a Sultan, Behold the glorious kingdom now that two are at one. ’Tis for the sake of kingship and world-enslaving power, That for the world, two world-protecting kings become as one, One is the Nasir of the age, the king Mahmud Sultan, Whose edict in the four parts of the world is still as one. The other is Mu‘izzu-d-Din the world’s king Kaiqubad, In whose grasp Iran and Turan are welded into one. And this is his also— Sultan Mu‘izzu-d-Dunya wad Din Kaiqubad Shah Hast thou ever seen one who is the light of the eyes of four kings