The Rashīdī History 127.2

127.2

At this announcement, the thread of the Khan's hope, which was slender as a spider's web, snapped in two. But he did not regret that he had come, for he had done so as a last resource, with his eyes open and knowing the risk he was running. Khwaja Ali Bahadur sent people to seize whatever they had brought with them, and imprisoned the Khan in an apartment which was above the gateway of the citadel of Andijan. On the morrow, when the glorious sword-bearer of the East drew his sword from the sheath of the horizon, and caused its dazzling brightness to illumine the earth, the resplendent world was utter darkness in the eyes of the Khan, who was sent, with his hands tied to his neck, to Jani Beg Khan in Akhsi. But Khwaja Ali Bahadur was depressed and sorrowful; he felt deeply for the Khan, but as he did not dare to disobey Shahi Beg Khan's orders, he could not so much as think of releasing the Khan.