The Nāṣirī Generations 170.1.8

170.1.8

Thus a totally incorrect translation of a native historian’s words, and a statement respecting which the translators themselves contradict their own previous translation, is handed down from one writer to the other. This is writing history with a vengeance. The stratagem referred to above is related in Firishtah, which see but it Malik assembled the forces of Hindustan and a levy of the [different] Khokhar tribes, and appeared before the gates of Sial-kot, and sat down before it for a considerable time, and again retired without being able to effect his object. After that, in the year 582 H., the Sultan-i-Ghazi [Mu’izz-ud-Din] appeared [again] before the gates of Lohor. As the Mahmudi sovereignty had reached its termination, and the sun of the empire of Sabuk-Tigin had reached its setting, and the Recorder of Destiny had inscribed the decree of Khusrau Malik’s dethronement, that monarch was not possessed of the power to resist, and he entered into negotiations for peace; and, for the purpose of having an interview with the Sultan [Mu’izz-ud-Din], Khusrau Malik came out [of Lohor]. He was seized, and imprisoned, and Lohor passed into the possession of the Sultan-i-Ghazi, and the kingdom of Hindustan came under his sway.