The Book of Akbar 111.3

111.3

In the months of 615 (1218), he marched to Transoxiana against Sultan Muhammad, king of Khwarizm and the people of that country received the chastisement of capital punishment. When he had finished the affairs of Transoxiana, he crossed the Amu (Oxus) and turned his world-opening reins towards Balkh. He despatched Tuli Khan with a large army to Khurasan and after conquering Iran and Turan, he came from Balkh to Taliqan. From thence he went off to put an end to Jalalu-d-din Mangbarni and in Ramazan 624 (Aug. 1227), defeated him up to banks of the Indus. From thence he went to Transoxiana towards his permanent encampment (Karakoram). He died in the year of the Hog which was also that of his birth and accession, on 4th 624, in the borders of the country of Tangut. Before his death, he directed that when the inevitable event occurred, they should keep it secret until the affair of the people of Tangut was completed and that there might be no commotion in distant countries. His sons and officers carried out his instructions and took steps to conceal the event till the people of Tangut had come out and been made the forage of the sword. Then they marched off bearing the body (of Cingiz) in a chest, putting to death everybody whom they met, so that the news might not be quickly conveyed to the different countries. On 14th Ramazan of the same year, they brought the body to the great camp and proclaimed the death.