The Nāṣirī Generations 192.2.6

192.2.6

After these events, in the year 622 H., Sultan Shams-ud-Din marched an army towards the territory of Lakhanawati, and [Sultan] Ghiyas-ud-Din, ’Iwaz, Khalji placed the neck of service within the yoke of subjection, and presented thirty elephants and eighty laks of treasure, and read the Khutbah, and stamped the coin, in the sacred name of the august Sultan, Shams-ud-Din. In the year 623 H., the Sultan determined to take the fort of Rantabhur, which, for its exceeding strength, solidity, and impregnability, is famous and notorious throughout all Hindustan. They have narrated in the Chronicles of the people of Hind after this manner, that seventy kings and more had appeared [at various times] at the foot of its walls, and not one of them had been able to reduce it. After some time, however, in the year 623 H., it was taken by the hands of the Sultan’s servants through the favour of the Creator. A year subsequent to this, in 624 H., he marched against the fort of Mandawar within the limits of the Siwalikh [territory], and its capture, likewise, the Almighty God facilitated for him, and he came back, and much booty fell into the hands of the servants of his dynasty.