Muntakhab al-tawarikh 6.2

6.2

Artagin at the order of the Sultan proceeded with an army to Tabaristan against Da'ud, the Turkoman, and having lost in battle a large number of his men came to Balkh, and established the coinage and proclamation of sovereignty in the name of the Amir Maudud. Afterwards when the Turkomans attacked him several times in force, not being able to contend with them, he quitted Balkh and came to Ghaznin. Then in the year 435 H. Amir Maudud imprisoned Abu ’Ali the Kotwal of Ghaznin for a time, but eventually appointed him as the Diwan of the kingdom and Kotwal of Ghaznin, and imprisoned Yasuri ibn Iyamghur the Diwan, till at length he died in confinement; he also punished Altigin; and in the year 436 H. Tahir who had succeeded Khwaja Ahmad as Wazir, died, and was succeeded by Khwaja Imam Abul Fath ’Abdur Razzak. In this same year he sent Tughral Hajib in the direction of Bust, who took prisoner Abu Mansur Zangi, the brother of Abul Fazl and brought him to Ghaznin; he then departed for Seistan and having 52. engaged in conflict with the Turkomans at the Ribat Amir, put most of them to death after which victory he went to Garm Sir, where he put to death the Turkomans of that district who were known as Red-caps and took many of them prisoner, and brought them to Ghaznin.