The Nāṣirī Generations 149.2.3

149.2.3

He then commanded, saying, "I have spared the remainder of the people of Ghaznin," and he arose from the assembly, and went to the hot-bath; and, on the eighth day of these proceedings, he got up at day-dawn, and, accompanied by the whole of the troops of Ghur, and the Maliks [chiefs], came to the mausoleum of his brothers. He then donned mourning garments, together with his whole army, and, for [another] seven nights and days, he remained at the mausoleum observing funeral ceremonies. During this period the whole Kur'an was read through several times, and alms were there distributed; and the coffins of his brothers were placed on biers, and he ['Ala-ud-Din] marched from Ghaznin towards the districts of Dawar and Bust. On reaching the city of Bust, he entirely destroyed the palaces and other edifices of the Mahmudi dynasty, the like of which were not to be found in the regions of the world; and the whole territory, which appertained to the Mahmudi sovereigns, he directed should be ravaged and desolated.