The Rashīdī History 157.13

157.13

All these were chiefs of tribes, and each had a retinue. There was yet another class of men, who had no following, but were quite alone; yet they had distinguished themselves above the rest, by their courage in many battles and engagements, and thus they had acquired the name of "heroes" [bahádur]. Some of their deeds of warlike valour will be mentioned below. A list of the names of a few of them follows: Midaka [Bahadur], Abdul Vahid [Bahádur], Khudai Kuli [Bahadur], Shakaval, Yusuf Bakaval, Muhammad Ali Tumán, Kishkui Divána, Kara Dana Kuli, Shaikh Nazar Yasaval, Barka Yasával, Hakk Nazar Divana, Ali Kurchi, Shah Mirak Kalandar, Baba Kulághan, Tangri Bardi, Bái Tisha, Hakk Nazar Kughuchi, Pak [or Jabak] Mir Akhur, Palicha Mir Akhur, Bar Mazid Mankish, Sukár Kaluchi, Sukar Ukhsi, Bábarin Azuk Mirza, and others. They were the talk of their time, and all of them heroes like Rustam, Zal, and Afrasiab the brazen-bodied. I have mentioned a few of them, but it would be tedious to mention them all; moreover many of them have no place in this history—no connection with the main events.