Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.1.1

33.1.1

On the twenty-ninth of Zul Hijjah in the year six hundred and ninety-five (695 H.) (A.D. 1295) raised the banner of the Sultanate of Dihli, with the consent of his brother Almas Beg, to whom he gave the title of Ulugh Khan, and to Sinjar, his wife’s brother, who was the Amir-i-Majlis he gave the title of Alp Khan, while to Malik Nusrat Jalisari he gave that of Nusrat Khan, and to Malik Badru-d-Din that of Zafar Khan, alighted at the plain of Siri, where he pitched his camp, and giving public audience delighted the hearts of the Amirs and all classes of his subjects by his boundless munificence, then he had the khutbah and the Sikka promulgated in his own name and conferred appointments and titles upon the Amirs, and distributing largesse gave his mind first of all to his principal object which was to overthrow the two sons of Sultan Jalalu-d-Din who were in Multan. Verse. As long as the head of the heir to the throne is on his shoulders, Disorder is the mantle of the body of the state. In the Muharram 696 A. H. (he sent) Ulugh Khan and Alp Khan against Arkali Khan and Sultan Ruknu-d-Din; both these brothers were besieged in the fortress of Multan. The inhabitants of the city and the Kotwal asked for quarter, and made overtures for peace, and the two princes, by the intervention of Shaikh Ruknu-d-Din Quraishi may God sanctify his resting place!