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Tabakat-i-Nasiri 203 - **Language:** English ### First Year: 644 H. ### [203.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203.1) The Sultan-i-Mu’azzam, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, under a happy conjunction of the planets, with auspicious fortune, at a propitious time, and, with daily-increasing prosperity, ascended the throne of sovereignty within the Kasr-i-Sabz \[Green Castle\] in the capital city of Dihli, on Sunday, the 23rd of the month of Muharram in the year 644 H.; and the Maliks and Amirs, the Sadrs and Grandees, and the Sayyids and ’Ulama, hastened to present themselves at the sublime Court — may its sublimity never decrease! — and performed the ceremony of kissing the blessed hands of this king of kings of august footstep; and all of them, each in a manner befitting his own position, tendered the homage of congratulation on his accession to the throne. On Tuesday, the 25th of this same month, the Sultan held a public reception in the audience-hall of the Kushk-i-Firuzi \[the Firuzi Castle\] — the royal residence; and all the people made public pledge of allegiance to the sovereignty and of submission to the mandates, of the beneficent monarch of excellent disposition and kingly countenance. All were rejoiced at the reconstitution of this dynasty, and all parts of the territory of Hindustan were pleased at this prosperous reign; and may it be prolonged to the utmost limits of possibility! ### [203.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203.2) When the Sultan of Islam, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, set out from Dihli towards Bhara'ij on that fief being assigned to him \[by his nephew, Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah\], his mother, the Malikah-i-Jahan, Jalal-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din — may her prosperity endure — accompanied him. He undertook many expeditions against the infidels in that territory and the mountains \[adjacent\]; and the province of Bhara'ij, through his auspicious arrival there, assumed a most flourishing condition. When, on account of those holy expeditions, and the flourishing condition \[of the province\], the fame of his government became diffused through the different parts of Hindustan, the Maliks and Amirs of the kingdom, having become apprehensive of Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, secretly despatched, to his presence, a written petition \[to the effect\] that, if the sacred footstep should turn towards the capital, Dihli, it would be a source of congratulation. ### [203.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203.3) The Malikah-i-Jahan, his mother, adopting a good expedient, represented to the people to the effect that her son was going to the city of Dihli for the purpose of obtaining medicine and remedy for sickness ; and she placed the Sultan in a litter ; and the Malikah, his mother, taking him along with her, and, attended by a great number of domestics on foot and on horseback, set out from Bhara’ij towards the capital, Dihli. When night came on, they covered the blessed face of the Sultan with a woman’s veil and placed him on horseback, and, proceeding with the utmost expedition, in a short space of time they reached Dihli on such wise that not a living being had information of the arrival of the august cavalcade of this monarch of felicitous reign until the day that he ascended the throne. ### [203.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203.4) After the seat of dominion became beautified and ornamented by the grace and splendour of his person, in the month of Rajab, in the year 644 H., he raised his imperial standards and brought out his forces for the purpose of marching to the banks of the river Sind, and Banian and the destruction of the infidels of Chin \[the Mughals\], and moved by successive marches. On Sunday, the 1st of the month of Zi-Ka’dah, 644 H., he crossed the river of Lohor \[Rawi\], and issued commands to the forces of Islam to ravage the Jud Hills and around Nandanah. Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam — may his good fortune continue! — who held the office of Amir-i Hajib, was nominated to the head of that army, and the Sultan with the camp, the followers, heavy material, and the elephants, encamped on the bank of the Sudharah. ### [203.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203.5) Ulugh Khan-i-Azam took that army, and, by the favour and aid of the Creator, he ravaged the Jud Hills and Jilam \[Jhilam\], and the Khokhars, and other contumacious infidels in great numbers he sent to hell. He pushed on as far as the bank of the river Sind and ravaged and plundered those parts, and returned again from thence on account of the difficulty of obtaining subsistence and necessaries for his troops. When he presented himself at the sublime Court after such success, and such a great renown, on Thursday, the 25th of Zi-Ka'dah of this same year, the auspicious standards moved from the bank of the river Sudharah, and the force set out on its return towards the illustrious capital, the city of Dihli. The prayers for the 'Id-i-Azha were said in the karah \[the hall of a Karwan Sarae or of a College\] of Jalandar \[Jalhandar\], and from thence, stage by stage, the capital was reached. On this day, likewise, this servant of the state, Minhaj-i-Saraj, who is the writer of this \[work\], was presented \[by order of the Sultan\] with a cloak a turban, and a horse, with ornamented stirrups and bridle befitting a king --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.203) · Pramāṇa