The Nāṣirī Generations 124.1

124.1

Mahmud, son of I-yal-Arsalan, Sultan Shah-i-Jalal-ud-Din, was a rash and impetuous monarch. When his brother, Takish, assumed the throne of Khwarazm, dissension arose between them, and he [Sultan Shah] went from Khwarazm towards Khurasan, and from thence came into the states of Ghur, and presented himself at the Court of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam. Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, and his Maliks treated him with honour and deference. Between the Sultans of Ghur and Sultan Takish a firm compact existed; and some parts of Khurasan had fallen into the possession of the Amirs of the Ghuzz tribe, and some to the slaves of the Sanjari dynasty, whilst others had become dependencies of the Court of Ghur and Firuz-koh, and of Bamian. Sultan Shah solicited assistance from the Ghurian Sultans to enable him to liberate Khurasan from the hands of his brother and the Ghuzz Amirs. They assigned him a fief for the present, and he was furnished with all things necessary as a guest; but they continued to observe the treaty between themselves and his brother, Sultan Takish, and hesitated to furnish him with the aid he sought.