The Nāṣirī Generations 160.6

160.6

Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Utsuz, reigned for a period of four years and a little over; and, after his death, his sons became dispersed. One of them, Malik Fakhr-ud-Din, Mas’ud, went into Gharjistan to the castle of Siya-Khanah and there he remained for some time; another, Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Muhammad, went to the fortress of Bindar [or Pindar], in Upper Gharjistan, and long continued there. The youngest son, Jamshed by name, during the troubles of the infidel Mughals, entered into the district of Hariw-ar-Rud, and, in the Darah of Khisht-Ab he was martyred [by Mughals]. Those two elder sons of the Sultan, through the calumny of Malik Khan of Hirat, received martyrdom at the hands of the slaves of Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah. They strove greatly, and strained every nerve; but, as it was not the Divine will, neither one of them attained unto sovereignty.