The Nāṣirī Generations 214.3

214.3

On Sunday, the 2nd of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, 655 H., the mandate was issued that the Sayyid Kutb-ud-Din, the Shaikh-ul-Islam, Jamal-ud-Din, and Kazi Shams-ud-Din, Bharaiji, should proceed to their fiefs. On their letters from the capital having reached Malik Kutlugh Khan and Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, they, at once, without the least delay, marched from their position, with the whole of their forces, and pushed on towards Dihli. This forced march of theirs upon the capital, from their camp near Samanah, was begun on Monday, the 3rd of the month of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, and they pushed on with such celerity that they marched a distance of one hundred kuroh [about 180 miles] in two days and a half; and, on Thursday, the 6th of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, they alighted at the Bagh-i-Jud [the Jud Garden]. The next morning, at dawn, after morning prayers, they made for the city gate, and made a circuit in the vicinity of the capital, and, at night, pitched their camp in the suburbs of Dihli, between the Bagh-i-Jud, and Gilu-khari, and the city.