The Nāṣirī Generations 192.2.5
Tabakat-i-Nasiri 192.2.5
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192.2.5
Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, being obliged to evacuate [his territory] before the Khwarazmi army, retired towards Lohor; and between him and Sultan Shams-ud-Din, hostilities arose about the boundaries [of their dominions], and an engagement took place between their respective armies at Tara’in, in the year 612 H., and Sultan Shams-ud-Din was victorious. Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, was taken prisoner, and, in accordance with his [Shams-ud-Din’s] command, they brought Yal-duz to Dihli, and sent him [fromthence] to Buda’un, and there he was buried. Subsequently, in the year 614 H., Shams-ud-Din fought an engagement with Malik [Sultan] Nasir-ud-Din, Kabajah, and the latter was overthrown; and, when the calamities, consequent upon the appearance of Chingiz Khan, the Mughal fell upon Khurasan, in the year 618 H. Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Khwarazm Shah, defeated by the army of infidels, retired in the direction of Hindustan. The sedition of the Khwarazm Shahis reached the limits of [the province of] Lohor; and Sultan Shams-ud-Din marched from Dihli towards Lohor with the forces of Hindustan, and Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Khwarazm Shah, having turned aside from the host of Hindustan, marched away towards Sind and Siwastan.