The Nāṣirī Generations 158.2

158.2

Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, retired from Firuz-koh into Gharjistan, and therein he was taken prisoner, and was confined in the castle of Ashiyar, as has been previously recorded ; and when the whole of the various parts of the dominions of Ghur, and Gharjistan, Ta-kan, and Guzarwan, and the district of Faras, and Garmsir, came under the sway and jurisdiction of his Slaves, such as Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, and Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, and other Turk Maliks and Amirs, who were Slaves of Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, each of them despatched a person of rank to the presence of his Court, and solicited from Sultan Mahmud letters of manumission, and the investitures of the territories of Ghaznin and of Hindustan respectively. He despatched a deed of investiture of the territory of Ghaznin and a canopy of state to Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz ; and, when Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, advanced to Ghaznin, he despatched Nizam-ud-Din, Muhammad, to Firuz-koh, in the year 605 H. ; and Sultan Mahmud directed that a scarlet canopy of state and a deed of investiture of the government of the dominion of Hindustan should be sent to him. Throughout the whole of the territories of Ghur, Ghaznin, and Hindustan, the Khutbah was read for Sultan Mahmud, and the coin was stamped with his name ; and, as he was the heir of the kingdom of his father and his uncle, all the Maliks and Sultans paid reverence to his dignity, and showed the obedience of vassals unto him.