The Nāṣirī Generations 124.3

124.3

He invested it for a time, but, finding the defenders had the best of it, he raised the investment and set out for Sabzwar, and invested that place. It capitulated on terms on the intercession of a holy man, and Sultan Shah, in conformity with those terms, entered it, remained an hour, and departed for Marw again. In Muharram, 583 H., Takish again appeared before Shad-yakh, and it was forced to submit, and Manguli Beg came forth and capitulated. Sultan Takish entered it in Rabi’-ul-Awwal of that year. Manguli was compelled to disgorge the wealth he had deprived others of, and was afterwards delivered over to the son of an Imam, whose father he had put to death unjustly, to suffer death according to the law of kisas or retribution. Three months afterwards, Takish having set out for Khwarazm, Sultan Shah, finding the coast clear, made another effort to get possession of Shad-yakh; but, although the walls were for the most part destroyed, the place was obstinately defended. Takish marched into Khurasan again on becoming aware of this movement on Sultan Shah’s part, and the latter, hearing of Takish’s entering Khurasan, burnt his battering-rams and made off. Takish remained all the cold season in Khurasan, preparing for a campaign in Azarbaijan, and nearly all the Amirs of Khurasan, who had hitherto not presented themselves, now joined him.