The Book of Akbar 119.2

119.2

Whosoever was befriended of Salvation, came forward to meet him with the foot of obedience and for such an one, the rose of auspiciousness bloomed on Fortune’s pinnacle. Whoever had misfortune and eventual destruction enfolded in his skirt, and disengaged his head from the collar of submission, arrived with tearing of hair at the Judgment-seat of the Dispenser (Qahraman) of Justice and beheld in his own bosom the thorn-brake offspring of his acts. On Monday of Zi-l-qa'da 789, he massacred the inhabitants of Ispahan on account of their sedition and rebellion. Thence he turned the reins of resolution towards the capital (Shiraz) of Persia (Pars) where the Muzaffar family (Al-i-muzaffar) became his servants. When news came of the opposition of Tuqtamish Khan the ruler of Dasht Qipcaq (the desert of Qipcaq, i.e., the Khirgiz Steppe) and one of those who had been supported by his Majesty (Timur), he twice led his army against him and having exalted the banners of victory, he returned. He traversed Dasht Qipcaq which is a thousand leagues (farsangs) long and six hundred wide and cleared it of the rubbish of strife. A second time he marched against Iran in 795 (1393) and brought death to Shah Mansur who had cocked the bonnet of frowardness, and he extirpated the Muzaffar race.