The Rashīdī History 41.2

41.2

He sent Amir Zada Jahangir forward to reconnoitre; and to accompany him he sent Shaikh Muhammad Bayan Salduz and Adilshah, to whom he had entrusted the tribe of Jalair, on the death of the latter's father, Bahram Jalair. Having passed Sairam, they came to a place called Jarun, where they seized one of the soldiers of the army of Jatah and sent him on to Amir Timur. When he was asked for news of Kamaruddin, who was of the tribe [Umak] of Dughlat, he related that Kamaruddin had collected an army and was then stationed at Keuk Tubeh, waiting for Haji Beg, but that no news of the advance of Amir Timur had reached Kamaruddin. Timur then ordered the reconnoitring party to hasten forward, while he himself soon after followed them. When Kamaruddin heard of these doings, he withdrew his army to an inaccessible spot called Birkah-i-Ghurian [the Pond of the Ghuris]. In that place there are three very deep ravines, through which flow three great rivers. Kamaruddin having crossed two of these valleys with his army, pitched his camp in the third, protecting the approaches thereto with barricades and entrenchments. But Prince Jahangir marched forward at the head of his experienced soldiers, to the sound of the drums and war-trumpets. After they had wounded and killed many of the enemy with their arrows, they came to close quarters with them, and when night fell, all the enemy took to flight;