The Nāṣirī Generations 192.3.2

192.3.2

After so much festivity and rejoicing, in the month of Jamadi-ul-Awwal, of the before-mentioned year [626 H.] information arrived of the decease of the august Malik, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, [the eldest son of Sultan Shams-ud-Din] ; and Balka Malik-i-Husam-ud-Din, 'Iwaz, the Khalj, rebelled in the territory of Lakhanawati. Sultan Shams-ud-Din led the contingents of Hindustan into that country ; and, in the year 628 H., that rebel was secured. The Sultan conferred the throne of Lakhanawati upon Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Jani, — on whom be peace! — and, in the month of Rajab of the same year, he returned again to the illustrious capital, Dihli. In the year 629 H., the Sultan came to the determination of undertaking the reduction of the fort of Gwaliyur; and, when the pavilion of his dominion was set up at the foot of that stronghold, Mangal Diw the accursed, the son of the accursed Mai Diw, commenced hostilities. The Sultan continued before that fortress for a period of eleven months; and the writer of these words, in the month of Sha’ban of the same year, set out from Dihli, and turned his face towards the threshold of sovereignty, and attained that felicity. The author, at certain stated periods, was commanded to deliver discourses at the private pavilion. Three times in each week discourses were fixed; and, when the month of Ramazan came round, a discourse used to be delivered daily.