The Nāṣirī Generations 162: SECTION XVIII. · THE SHANSABANIAH SULTANS OF TUKHARISTAN AND BAMIAN.

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Minhaj-i-Saraj, JURJANI, the humblest of the servants of the Almighty’s threshold, thus states, that, as Almighty God raised up great and powerful Sultans from the race of the Shansabanis, who were Maliks over the mountain tracts of Ghur, and brought within the grasp of their jurisdiction, and under their subjection, sundry territories of the countries of ’Ajam and of Hind, one of those territories was Tukharistan and the mountain tracts of Bamian, the rulers of which part have been famous and celebrated upon all occasions, from the most remote ages, for the grandeur of their station, the abundance of their riches, the vastness of their treasures, the number of their mines, and their buried wealth ; and, on sundry occasions, the sovereigns of ’Ajam, such as Kubad and Firuz these rulers have vanquished and overcome. That tract of country has also been famed and celebrated, to the uttermost parts of the countries of the world, for its mines of gold, silver, rubies, and crystal, bejadah [jade], and other [precious] things.
When the sun of the prosperity of the Maliks and Sultans of Ghur ascended from the eastern parts of eminence, and Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Husain, Jahan-soz, had wreaked vengeance upon the people of Ghaznin, he had leisure to turn his attention to the subjugation of that territory. After having subdued it, he installed therein his eldest brother, Malik Fakhr-ud-Din, Mas’ud, and from him descended an illustrious posterity, and Maliks of grandeur and dignity, the marks of whose equity and beneficence, and the fame of whose munificence and obligations conferred, became published throughout the four quarters of the world. The mercy of the Almighty be upon the whole of them!