The Nāṣirī Generations 198.12

198.12

This servant of the state, Minhaj-i-Saraj, and [several] priests of eminence of the city, used the utmost endeavours to make peace and allay the disaffection, but in no manner could an agreement be effected. The arrival of the forces before the gate of the city of Dihli happened on Saturday the 19th of the month of Sha’ban, 639 H., and, until the month of Zi-Ka’dah, hostilities were carried on against the fortress, and, on both sides, a great number of people perished and others were disabled. All the environs of the city were destroyed; and the cause of the prolongation of this sedition was this. There was a head Farrash in the Sultan's service whom they used to style Fakhr-ud-Din, Mubarak Shah, Farrukhi, who, in the employ of the Sultan, had found favour, and had acquired complete ascendancy over his mind, and whatever he said to the Sultan that the Sultan would do, and this Farrash would, in no way, assent to an accommodation.