Muntakhab al-tawarikh 42.3

42.3

The Sultan, in order to put down this rebellion, left Daulatabad for Dihli and thence by uninterrupted marches reached Multan, Bahram having come out against him fought with him, but was defeated and eventually put to death, his head was brought to the Sultan who intended to set the blood of the Multanis flowing like rivers on account of his crime, but when the Shaikhu-l-Islam Qutbu-l-‘Alam Shaikh Ruknu-l-Haqq wau-d-Din Quraishi, may God sanctify his holy resting place, having bared his venerable head presented himself at the Court of the Sultan and made intercession, the Sultan pardoned the offences of the people. Verse. From the earliest times of Adam till the days of the king, Great men have shewn mercy mean men have committed faults. And the Sultan having bestowed Multan upon Qiwamu-l-Mulk Maqbul retraced his steps, but after some little time having turned against him despatched Bahsa to replace him, but Shahū killed the Afghan ... Sultān on his arrival at Dihalpūr found that Shahū had fled into the hill country, so he turned back. And in the year 729 A.H. (1329 A.D.) Tarmashirīn the Ilkhan, the brother of Qutlugh Khwāja the Mughal King of Khurāsān who had formerly invaded Hindūstān, having entered the Dihlī territory with an enormous army, seized the majority of the forts and properties slaughtering and taking captives from Lāhor and Sāmāna and Indrī to the borders of Badāon, and when the victorious troops of Islām came up with him, he retreated as they advanced;