[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) › 218.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 218.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 218.1 - **Language:** English ### [218.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.1) \[Our author — after laying much stress on the necessity of showing due gratitude to benefactors for favours and benefits conferred by them, which necessity is clear to every well ordered mind, and which the most wise and pious men have inculcated and enjoined, for, as philosophers have said: ‘They who have no gratitude for man have no gratitude for God,’ — therefore returns his grateful thanks, as in duty bound — in highly-coloured terms to the august Sultan of the Sultans of Islam, Shams-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, I-yal-timish, and to those sovereigns, his children \[and grandchildren\], who have placed the foot of dignity on the throne of empire, for their manifold donations and benefactions, and also to those Maliks and Khans, the servants of that dynasty, who have attained to the hall of their sovereignty — the arena of dominion for their kindnesses and favours towards himself, his children, his dependents, and his followers, from the year 625 H., up to this present time which is the year 658 H., and which benefits and favours, day by day, and hour by hour, have been increasing and augmenting by the granting of offices and dignities, by gifts and benefactions, the enumeration of which cannot be contained within the limits of this abbreviated work. “I have now,” he says, “reached the point of my design and here I must render what he says, as nearly as possible, in his own words.\]. - [Previous: 217](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.217) - [Next: 218.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.2) - [Up: 218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.1) · Pramāṇa