The Nāṣirī Generations 133.4

133.4

In short, that master of eloquence, Maulana Fakhr-ud-Din, Mubarak Shah, has composed that genealogical list in verse, in the name of Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Husain, Jahansoz; and, at the outset, I heard from the sacred lips of that most excellent of her time, and Khadijah of the age, the Malikah-i-Jalali that, when some portion of the book and chronicle in question had been composed in verse, through a change which had showed itself in the temperament of Fakhr-ud-Din, Mubarak Shah, this poem was neglected by him until the time when the throne of the kingdom became adorned and beautified with the majesty and august splendour of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, when this chronicle became graced with his name and titles, and was brought to completion.