The Nāṣirī Generations 180.3

180.3

He was a great monarch, of excellent faith, mild, beneficent, of good disposition, and very handsome. The Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu’izz-ud-Din, purchased him when he was young in years, and, from the outset of his career, appointed him to an office, and subsequently, step by step, advanced him to a high position, and made him head and chief over the other Turkish slaves. When he grew up he attained authority and power, and the Sultan conferred upon him the government of the district of Sanquran and Karman in feudal fief ; and every year that the Sultan would make a halt in Karman, on his expeditions into Hindustan, Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, used to feast the whole of the Amirs, the Maliks, and the suite, and was in the habit of presenting a thousand honorary head-dresses and quilted tunics, and would command liberal largess to be given to the whole retinue.