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# The Nāṣirī Generations 170.2.8

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 170.2.8

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### [170.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.2.8)

— which Briggs has read for arrow\] showed the greatest audacity and agility, and, from the top of his elephant, inflicted such a wound \[with what weapon not said\] on the upper part of the arm of the Sultan that he was nearly falling from his horse. A Khalj youth on foot \[there is not a word about his chiefs coming to his rescue\] discovered it, jumped up behind him on the horse, and, taking the Sultan in his arms, bore him out of the battle-field, and conveyed him to the forces of the runaway nobles which were twenty kuroh off; and the tumult and disquiet which had arisen, consequent on the defeat of the army of Islam, and not finding the Sultan, subsided.” . . . There is not a word about

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