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The Nāṣirī Generations 183.1.4

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 183.1.4

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183.1.4

When a battle took place between Sultan Shah and the Sultans of Ghur and Ghaznin, and the former was put to the rout, the Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din's men brought Kutb-ud-Din, placed on a camel, in gyves of iron, as they found him, into the victorious Sultan's presence. The Sultan commended and encouraged him; and, after he returned to the seat of government, Ghaznin, the fief of Kuhram was committed to Kutb-ud-Din’s charge. From thence he advanced towards Mirath, and took possession of that place in the year 587 H. From Mirath likewise he issued forth in the year 588 H. and captured Dihli; and, in the year 590 H., Kutb-ud-Din proceeded, at the august stirrup of the victorious Sultan, along with the Sipah-Salar, ’Izz-ud-Din, Husain, son of Khar-mil, both of them being the leaders of the van of the army, and fell upon the Rae of Banaras, Jai-Chand, on the confines of Chand-wal and overthrew him. Subsequently, in the year 591 H., Thankir was taken; and, in 593 H., Kutb-ud-Din marched towards Nahrwalah, and attacked Rae Bhim Diw, and took vengeance upon that tribe [of people] for the Sultan-i-Ghazi[’s previous defeat]. He likewise subdued other territories of Hindustan, as far [south ?] east as the frontier of the territory of Ujjain; and Malik 'Izz-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of Ba^t-