The Nāṣirī Generations 165.5

165.5

In short, he was a great monarch ; and his dominions assumed great amplitude and expansion, and comprised the whole of the country of Tukharistan and its dependencies, together with other territories, namely, in the east as far as the frontier of Kashmir, and, in the west, as far as the boundary of Tirmid and Balkh ; north, as far as the bounds of Kashghar ; and south, as far as Ghur and Gharjistan, in the whole of which the Khutbah was read for him and the money impressed with his name. The whole of the Maliks and Amirs of each of the three kingdoms, namely, Ghur, Ghaznin, and Bamian, after [the decease of] both the Sultans [Ghiyas-ud-Din, and Mu’izz-ud-Din], turned their eyes on him ; and, when Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, was martyred, the Maliks and Amirs of Ghaznin, both Ghuris and Turks, with one consent, requested him to come [and assume the sovereignty]. Sultan Baha-ud-Din, Sam, accordingly, determined to proceed from Bamian to Ghaznin, and set out in that direction with a numerous army. When he reached the district of Kidan, he was attacked with diarrhoea, and, only nineteen days after the martyrdom of the victorious Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, Sultan Baha-ud-Din, Sam, died. His reign was fourteen years.