Muntakhab al-tawarikh 41.2

41.2

(Mir Khusru in many of his compositions complains bitterly against him and Sa‘d Falsafi) joining with Shaikh-zada Dimishqi on the occasion of the late arrival of the stage from Dihli, spread a false report that the Sultan Tughlaq was no more, whereupon great dismay spread through the Muslims. ‘Ubaid also terrified the Amirs by his account of Ulugh Khan, and infidels springing up put to death many of the soldiers of the army; Malik Tigin and other revolutionary Amirs planned an insurrection against Ulugh Khan who with fifty sowars came by rapid marches to the metropolis, whereupon the Amirs took themselves off, each to his own district; and Malik Tigin who had gone to the country between Multan and Jaisalmir was taken prisoner with his family, and Taju-d-Din Talaqani, the son-in-law of Malik Tigin who had escaped from prison, was captured on the banks of the river Saru, and ‘Ubaid (the poet) also was captured in the same way in a wretched All this party with their families and friends, they cast under the feet of elephants, and those who escaped this fate met their death wherever they went. And in the year 723 A.H. (1323 A.D.) Ulugh Khan for the second time marched towards Tiling, and Rai Ladar Mahadeo again shut himself up in the fort.