[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 217 # The Nāṣirī Generations 217: Fifteenth Year : 658 H. Tabakat-i-Nasiri 217 - **Language:** English ### [217](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.217) When the new year of 658 H. came in, the sun of sovereignty rose from the horizon of prosperity, and the moon of dominion shone forth from the zodiac of happiness. On the 13th of the month of Safar, the Khan-i-Mu'azzam, Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, marched towards the Koh-payah of Dihli, to put down the violence of the contumacious Mew of whom a demon would be horrified, and about 10,000 horsemen in defensive armour, warlike and relentless warriors, followed his august stirrup. The next day vast booty, and cattle in great numbers, arrived. He \[the Khan\] plundered and devastated difficult passes, and attacked strong mountain tracts, and Hindus beyond computation fell beneath the unsparing swords of the holy-warriors. Since the accomplishment of this History has reached this place, with this holy-warfare, and victory and success conferred by God, it is concluded. Should life be prolonged, and eternity extend the time, and aptitude remain, whatever events may hereafter occur will be recorded. The hope and reliance \[of the author\] on such persons as may look into this Tabakat and into these Annals, and take into consideration these Chronicles and Narrations, or if an atom of these accounts or a hint of these statements should come to their hearing, is, that, if an error, mistake, inadvertency, or omission should enter their generous minds or reach their recipient ears, they will veil it with the garment of forgiveness, and endeavour to correct and rectify it, since whatever had been read in previous histories from the narrations and chronicles of Prophets, Maliks, and Sultans, has been copied, and whatever the eye has beheld has been recorded. May the Most High God preserve and continue the dynasty of the Sultan-i-Mu’azzam, the great king of kings, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Abu-l-Muzaffar-i-Mahmud Shah, son of the Sultan I-yal-timish, on the throne of sovereignty and the couch of dominion to the utmost bounds of possibility, and may He grant His forgiveness to the compiler of this Tabakat, for the sake of the illustrious Prophet Muhammad! Additional Note.— At page 525, where I have given what is said to have been the inscription on the coins of Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, I have stated, as will be observed, that the inscription is given as “contained in a work in my possession, and which the coins are said to have borne.” I did not vouch for its accuracy; and this refers equally to the inscriptions subsequently given up to the reign just concluded. I am under the necessity of burdening this translation with these additional remarks because Mr. H. Blochmann, M.A., imagines he has made an important discovery. He says \[Contributions to the History and Geography of Bengal, No. III., page 136, last para.\], “I, too, have a work in my possession on the ‘Coins of the Salatin i Hind,’ a modern demi-quarto Dihli lithograph, based on Sayyid Ahmad’s Asar us-Sanadid, and I dare say I have discovered the source of Major Raverty’s information.” In this, as in some other matters, however, he is totally mistaken. I do not know of, nor have I seen, any Asar-us-Sanadid, by Sayyid Ahmad—although I dare say anything from the Sayyid’s pen is valuable. The work I refer to is a MS., of which I had a copy taken by my Afghan Maulawi of Kandahar—a real Patan—some ten years since, and, from what I can discover, it had been used by, or belonged to, the late W. Marsden. I can put Mr. Blochmann in the way of finding the MS., should he ever come to England. - [Previous: 216](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.216) - [Next: 218.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.217](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.217) · Pramāṇa