The Nāṣirī Generations 183.3.3

183.3.3

It is amusing here also to find how Firishtah, whose account is substantially the same as the preceding, has been translated. Dow says; "In the year 599 he mustered his forces, and marched to the siege of Calinger, where he was who was Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din’s brother’s son, despatched was still a slave—and the government of Hindustan, which Mahmud had conferred upon him, or rather, confirmed him in, and was greatly exalted and honoured thereby.” Our author, and some who copy him, state, that Kutb-ud-Din returned to Dihli after the expedition against the Khokhars; but it must be remembered that Kutb-ud-Din accompanied his master, Mu’izz-ud-Din, to Lahor after that affair, and, as only two months and sixteen days elapsed between the assassination of the Sultan and Kutb-ud-Din’s assumption of the sovereignty at Lahor, it is therefore probable that, on hearing of the assassination of the Sultan, which took place fifteen days after latter left Lahor, he returned to it at once, and possibly had not even left it when the news reached him. After a time, he returned to Dihli again. The Taj-ul-Ma’asir says he made Luhawar his capital, “the place where the throne of Sultans had been established,” but the reason, why he eventually returned to Lahor, and continued there to the day of his death, has been stated already in another place.