The Nāṣirī Generations 185.2

185.2

He was son-in-law to Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, through two daughters; and, by the elder daughter, he had a son—Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Bahram Shah. He [Bahram Shah] was of handsome exterior and of good disposition, but addicted to pleasure; and, according to the way of youth, he had an excessive predilection for vice. In short, when Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jah, after the catastrophe of Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, proceeded to Uchchah, he possessed himself of the city of Multan, and Sindustan and Diwal, as far as the sea-coast. The whole he brought under his sway, and subjected the fortresses, cities, and towns of the territory of Sind, assumed two canopies of state, and annexed [the country to the eastward] as far as the limits of Tabarhindah, Kuhram, and Sursuti. He also took Lohor several times; and fought an engagement with the troops of Ghaznin which used to come [into the Panjab] on the part of Sultan Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, as our author mentions ; but, after the defeat of I-yal-duz, and he had been put to death in captivity by I-yal-timish, Kaba-jah got possession of these territories again, and apparently as a tributary of I-yal-timish, or in some way subject. Our author leaves out here, but mentions in two lines, and under a wrong date, the first hostilities which arose between Kaba-jah and I-yal-timish under the latter’s reign. These hostilities arose in 613 H., many years before the defeat of Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Khwarazm Shah, by the Mughals.