The Nāṣirī Generations 170.3.3

170.3.3

The following year the Sultan-i-Ghazi assembled the troops of Islam, and commenced his march towards Hindustan, to avenge the [disaster of the] previous year The author heard from a trustworthy person, a distinguished man of the highland district of Tulak, whom they used to style by the title of Mu’in-ud-Din, Ushi, who said : I was in that army along with the Sultan-i-Ghazi, and the number of cavalry composing the army of Islam that year was one hundred and twenty thousand arrayed himself before him, said, ‘O King, we trust to thy conduct and wisdom ; but as yet thy design has been a subject of much dispute and speculation among us.’ Mahommed replied, ‘Know, old man, that since the time of my defeat in Hindostan, notwithstanding external appearances, I have never slumbered in ease, or waked but in sorrow and anxiety. I have therefore determined, with this army, to recover my lost honour from those idolaters, or die in the noble attempt,’ ” &c. ‘O King, we trust in thy conduct and wisdom ; but as yet thy design has been subject of much speculation among us.’ Mahomed Ghoory replied, ‘Know, old man, that since the time of my defeat in Hindustan, notwithstanding external appearances, I have never slumbered in ease, or waked but in sorrow and anxiety. I have therefore determined, with this army, to recover my lost honour from those idolaters, or die in the attempt,” &c. Here, again, Elphinstone has been deceived, and, quoting Briggs, further disseminates a wrong translation.