The Nāṣirī Generations 213: Eleventh Year: 654 H.

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When the new year, 654 H., came round, the Sultan's forces, in the month of Muharram, 654 H., having achieved that success attended with felicity and victory, and aided by the protection of the Creator Most High, the Sultan turned his face towards Dihli, and, on Tuesday, the 4th of Rabi’-ul-Akhir, 654 H., the capital was reached.
When Malik Kutlugh Khan became aware that the Sultan's forces had retired towards the capital, he began to appropriate the territories of Karah and Manikpur, and between him and [the feudatory] Arsalan Khan, Sanjar-i-Chast, a conflict took place, but the victory remained with Arsalan Khan. As it became impracticable for Malik Kutlugh Khan to make further resistance in Hindustan, he determined to move upwards [towards the Biah and Lahor] through the border tracts, and proceeded in the direction of Santur, and sought shelter among the independent [Hindu] tribes. The Sultan with his forces moved from the capital, Dihli, on Monday, the 20th of Zi-Hijjah, to quell this sedition of his; and, as the new year, 655 H., came round, the army, in that year, marched towards Santur, and hostilities were commenced between the forces of Islam and the Hindus of the Koh-payah [skirt of the hills]. Kutlugh Khan was among that people; and a party among the Musalman Amirs, who were apprehensive, through being falsely accused, joined him, but, as they had not the power to withstand [the Sultan's troops], they consequently turned their backs [and retired], and Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, by stroke of sword, turned that mountain tract upside down, and pushed on through passes and defiles to Silmur [i. e. Sirmur], and devastated the Koh-i-Silmur [the hill tract of Sirmur], and waged holy war as by the faith enjoined, over which tract no sovereign had acquired power, and which no Musalman army had ever before reached, and caused such a number of villainous Hindu rebels to be slain as cannot be defined nor numbered, nor be contained in record nor in narration.