The Nāṣirī Generations 170.5.3

170.5.3

and the Kokars fought in such wise that, with all that grandeur and power, the Sultān had nearly been forced back from his position, when, unexpectedly, at that juncture, Kutb-ud-Dīn, I-bak, with the forces of Hindūstān, arrived [upon the scene], and commenced slaughtering the Kokars. As Kutb-ud-Dīn’s troops were fresh and vigorous, the Kokars were unable to resist them, and they took to flight. The soldiers of Islām, pursuing them, inflicted such havoc upon them as cannot be conceived. Those that escaped the sword fled to the dense depths of the jangal and the Musalmāns set fire to he set out on his return towards Ghaznin. in the year 602 H., at the halting-place of Dam-yak, he attained martyrdom at the hand of a disciple of the Mulahidah, and died. One of the learned men of that period has composed a verse on this occurrence. It is here recorded that it may come under the observation of the sovereign of the Musalmans, and that verse is as follows:— “The martyrdom of the sovereign of sea and land, Mu’izz-ud-Din, From the beginning of the world the like of whom no monarch arose, On the third of the month Sha’ban in the year six hundred and two, Happened on the road to Ghaznin at the halting-place of Dam-yak.” May the Most High King encompass that Sultan-i-Ghazi with his mercy and forgiveness, and preserve the sovereign of the age!