The Nāṣirī Generations 192.2.1

192.2.1

When the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu’izz-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of Sam, returned from his campaign against Khwarazm, and when, in the engagement at And-khud, a reverse befell the troops of Khita and the Khokhar tribes had begun to rebel and manifest contumacy, he moved from Ghaznin for the purpose of making war on that unbelieving people. Malik Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, in conformity with the Sultan’s orders, led the [available] forces of Hindustan to the scene of action; and Shams-ud-Din, with the contingent troops of Buda’un, accompanied him. During the engagement [which ensued], in the height of the conflict, Shams-ud-Din, in all his panoply, rode right into the water of the river Jilam [Jhilam] in which those active rascals had made their place of shelter, and displayed great valour, and by the wounds inflicted by [his men’s] arrows discomfited them; and his warlike feats, whilst in that water, reached such a pitch, that he was despatching those infidels from the height of the waters to the lowest depths of Hell: — “They were drowned, and cast into the fire [of hell]