[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 170.5.2 # The Nāṣirī Generations 170.5.2 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 170.5.2 - **Language:** English ### [170.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5.2) The Sultān directed Kutb-ud-Dīn to assemble the \[available\] troops of Hindūstān and march against the Kokars, and to annihilate and eradicate, beyond ought that could be conceived, that seditious and contumacious race. “When the command reached Kutb-ud-Dīn, he assembled and made ready his forces, and was about to move against that tribe, when Sultān Shihāb-ud-Dīn himself was on the point of marching his troops towards Khitā, but, successive complaints of the violence and outrages committed by the Kokars reached him, and his people represented to that Sultān such numbers of things \[respecting them\], that it became incumbent on him to quell them and restrain their sedition first, and then to proceed in the other direction. Consequent upon this he gave up his determination of invading Khitā, and pitched his \[advanced\] tent in the direction of Luhāwar, and, on the 5th of Rabī’-ul-Awwal, of this same year \[602 H.\], he set out from Ghaznah towards Hindūstān. When Shihāb-ud-Dīn reached Purshawar, he found that the Kokars, in large numbers, had taken up a position between the Jīlam \[Jhilam\] and the Sudarah \[Sūdhara\]. On hearing this news, Shihāb-ud-Dīn made a forced march from Purshawar on Thursday, the 25th of the same month, and fell upon them unawares \[Jāmi’-ut-Tawārīkh says he attacked them on the 25th\]; from break of day till the time of afternoon prayers he kept up the flame of battle and conflict; - [Previous: 170.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5.1) - [Next: 170.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5.3) - [Up: 170.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.170.5.2) · Pramāṇa