The Nāṣirī Generations 216: Fourteenth Year: 657 H.

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The new year having come round, on Thursday, the 13th of Muharram, 657 H., the Sultan's forces moved for the purpose of carrying on war against the infidels; and, on Sunday, the 21st of the month of Safar, the territories of Bhianah, Kol, Balaram, and Gwaliyur were placed in Malik Nusrat-ud-Din, Sher Khan-i-Sunkar’s charge; and the Malik-un-Nawwab, I-bak, was nominated to proceed with a force against the infidels of Rantabhur, and the Sultan’s forces returned to the illustrious seat of the kingdom’s glory again.
On Wednesday, the 4th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Akhir of this year, two elephants and some treasure from the territory of Lakhanawati reached the sublime Court; and, on the 6th [26th ?] of the aforesaid month, the Shaikh-ul-Islam [Patriarch] of the capital, Jamal-ud-Din, the Bustami died, and on the 24th of the month Kazi Kabir-ud-Din departed this life—the Almighty’s mercy be upon them!—and their offices were conferred, with king-like benevolence, upon their sons. In the month of Rajab of this same year, Malik Saif-ud-Din, I-bak, Kashli Khan-i-A’zam, the Bar-Bak, passed to the eternal mansion of the Most Compassionate, and the office of Amir-i-Hajib was assigned to his son, Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad. On the 1st of Ramazan, the Imam, Hamid-ud-Din of Marigalah, died likewise, and his grants, by the royal favour, were confirmed to his sons.
After such turmoil, when the prosperity of the state, and the dominion of the great Sultan’s kingdom, had its face turned to extension, and all fractures were set and all wounds were alleviated, on the branch of continuity on the stately tree of monarchy, a new flower bloomed, and a tender bud opened, and the ripening fruit grew; and, on the 29th of the month of Ramazan, the abundant grace of the Creator of the Sultani [imperial] stem, from the illustrious shell of Khani [the daughter of Ulugh Khan], bestowed a son; and such an amount of favours and benefactions reached both gentle and simple — noble and plebeian — [in gratitude] for these blessings, as the pen of the record-writer cannot record, nor the breath of the narrator be sufficiently capable of narrating — May the Almighty God ever keep the parterre of sovereignty and garden of dominion adorned with the trees and fruits of continuation!
At the end of the month of Shawwal of this same year, Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Tez Khan, with a force duly organized and equipped, in accordance with the sublime mandate, reached the capital.