The Nāṣirī Generations 151.4

151.4

When he perceived those two gauntlets belonging to his own haram upon the hand of War-mesh, the honour of manhood, and the dignity of sovereignty, began to flame up within his heart, and the fire of wrath burst forth, and he said:—“Run, War-mesh, and bring back my arrow from the butt.” When War-mesh turned his face towards the butt, in order to carry out this command, and his back was turned towards the Sultan, he, Sultan Saif-ud-Din, fitted a broad steel-headed arrow to his bow, and drew the bow-string to his ear, and discharged the arrow with such force into the back of War-mesh, that the feathers of the arrow passed out through his breast, and he fell down dead on the spot. As the empire of the Sanjari dynasty had come to an end, the Amirs of the tribe of Ghuzz had acquired power, and had taken possession of the different parts of the territory of Khurasan, and their violence and depredations had extended in all directions ; and the disquietude and affliction consequent upon these depredations used to reach the frontier districts of the kingdom of Ghur, and the borders of the hill tracts of Gharjistan.