The Nāṣirī Generations 219.1

219.1

The arrival of the author [of this history] at the Court — the asylum of the world — of the beneficent king of kings [I-yal-timish] took place on Wednesday, the 1st of the month of Rabi'-ul-Awwal, 625 H., before [the walls of] the preserved city of Uchchah, at the period when the Shamsi forces had marched from the capital city of Dihli for the purpose of taking possession of the kingdom of Sind, and had turned their faces towards that country. Fifteen days prior to this, the victorious troops of that monarch, comprising the force under Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajz-lak Khan — The Almighty's mercy be upon him! — had arrived before Uchchah; and the first personage among the Maliks of that Court who was seen by the author was Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajz-lak Khan. When, on Wednesday, the 16th of the month of Safar, the author proceeded from the city of Uchchah, and reached the camp of the victorious [forces], that Malik of good disposition treated him with reverence, and rose from his masnad, and went through the ceremonial of receiving him, and came to meet him, and seated the author in his own place, and put a rosy apple into his hand, and observed: "Take this Maulana, that it may be a good omen." I found Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajz-lak Khan, a Malik of sufficiently formidable aspect, his form of magnitude, and his piety pure, and with a numerous suite, and followers countless.