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Tabakat-i-Nasiri 218 - **Language:** English ### SECTION XXII. · ACCOUNT OF THE SHAMSIYAH MALIKS IN HIND. ### [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.\]. ### [218.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.2) ‘Since Almighty God of His favour prolonged the reign of the Sultans of the I-yal-timishi dynasty high the standards of jurisdiction of his servants in the decree of duration, this frail one, in repayment of some of those many debts of gratitude, desired that he should thread upon the thread of description, and string on the string of writing, an account of those Maliks and Khans, the servants of that Court which is the asylum of the universe, more particularly the mention of the successive benefits, and increasing generosity of that Khakan-i-Mu'azzam, Shahriyar-i-'Adil wa Akram, Khusrau-i-Bani Adam, Baha-ul-Hakk wa ud-Din, Mughis-ul-Muluk-i-Islam wa ul-Muslimin, Zil-l-ullah fi ul-'Alamin, 'Uzd-ud-Daulah wa us-Sultanat, Yamin-ul-Mamlakat, Kutb-ul-Ma'ali, Rukn-ul-'Ala, Ulugh Kutlugh-i-A'zam, Ulugh Khan-i-Balban-us-Sultani, Abu-Salatin, Zahir-i-Amir-ul-Muminin \[The Great King, the Most Just and Most Generous Prince, the Khusrau of the race of Adam, the precious of God and of the Faith, the auxiliary of the Maliks of Islam and of Musalmans, the shadow of the Almighty upon the worlds, the pole-star of grandeur, the sublime prop, the arm of the kingdom and empire, the right hand of the state, the most great Ulugh Kutlugh, Ulugh Khan-i-Balban of the \[time of the\] I-yal-timishi dynasty, the father of Sultans, the Supporter of the Lord of the Faithful\] — May the Almighty exalt his Helper and double his power ! ### [218.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.3) — for, since the pen of the orbit of existence on the pages of the dawn of empire delineated the tracery of prosperity and the figure of dominion, it hath not depicted a countenance of felicity more charming than the aspect of his power; and the exalting hand of time, a standard more sublime than his precious and superb banner, hath never raised. The Court of no sovereign of the universe, either in the east or the west, who hath placed the foot on the throne of dominion, hath had a servant more sagacious, and no ear hath heard a tale of the might of dominion more brilliant than the narration of his rule, for verily his equitable age appears like the succession of ’Umr, his benevolence tells of the liberality of Hatim, his sword reminds \[one\] of the force of Rustam’s blow, and his arrow the penetration of the arm of Arash. May God crown his banner with victory; make strong his nobles and chiefs: and annihilate his foes! ### [218.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218.4) In the way of repayment therefore of debts \[of gratitude\] due to those renowned Maliks, and more particularly for the mention of the rule of that powerful prince \[Ulugh Khan\], this Tabakah has been written after the manner of a miscellany, in order that scrutinizers, when they look into these pages, may, according to the benediction for those departed and the invocation for the preservation of those remaining, have the character of every one of them clearly defined upon the page of the mind. In the arrangement also of this Tabakah, some Maliks were earlier, in time, than they appear here, and some have been mentioned later, arising from the period that the author arrived at this Court. May the Most High God preserve the Sultan of Sultans and the Ulugh-i-A’zam, Ulugh Khan-i-Mu’azzam, in the hall of existence to the utmost limits of possibility. Amin! --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.218) · Pramāṇa