The Nāṣirī Generations 199.1

199.1

Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, was the son of Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah, and was a beneficent Prince and of good disposition, and was endowed with all noble qualities. On Saturday, the 8th of Zi-Ka'dah, 639 H., when the city of Dihli passed out of the possession of Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din, Bahram Shah, the Maliks and Amirs, with one consent, brought forth, from confinement, all three Princes [the sons and grandsons of Sultan Shams-ud-Din, I-yal-timish], namely, Sultan [subsequently] Nasir-ud-Din, Malik Jalal-ud-Din, and Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, and conducted them from the Kasr-i-Safed [White Castle] to the Kasr-i-Firuzi-i-Daulat-Khanah [the Firuzi Castle, the royal residence], and agreed to the sovereignty of 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, after that Malik 'Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, had assumed the throne within the royal residence, and after he had been proclaimed outside the Kasr, and a proclamation, in his name, respecting his [assumption] of the sovereignty, had been once published about the city. In that matter the other Maliks, not having agreed, placed Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, upon the throne, and administered a public pledge of fealty to the people. Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, son of 'Ali, the Ghuri, became Deputy of the kingdom, the Khwajah, Muhazzab-ud-Din, the Nizam-ul-Mulk, was [again] made Wazir, and Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Kara-Kash, became Amir-i-Hajib [Lord Chamberlain].