The Nāṣirī Generations 169.1

169.1

Sultan Saif-ud-Din, Suri, was a great monarch, and was greatly endowed with valour, vigour, clemency, decision, justice, beneficence, a graceful presence, and kingly grandeur. He was the first person of this race to whom they accorded the title of Sultan. When the news of the misfortune which had befallen his elder brother, the Malik-ul-Jibal, was brought to his hearing, he set about taking revenge upon Sultan Bahram Shah, and caused a numerous army to be got in readiness from the different tracts of Ghur, and set out towards Ghaznin, overthrew Bahram Shah, and took Ghaznin. Bahram Shah fled from before him, and retired towards Hind, and Saif-ud-Din, Suri, ascended the throne of Ghaznin, and made over the dominions of Ghur to his brother, Baha-ud-Din, Sam, the father of [the Sultans] Ghiyas-ud-Din, and Mu’izz-ud-Din. Having brought Ghaznin under his sway, the whole of the Amirs and soldiery, the notables and great men of Ghaznin and of the adjacent parts submitted to him; and he bestowed upon those classes ample gifts and favours, so much so, that the soldiery and Amirs of Bahram Shah became overwhelmed in the benefits he bestowed upon them.