The Nāṣirī Generations 224.3

224.3

The Hindus were routed, and numbers of them sent to hell, and he returned with his booty to the fortress of Gwaliyur in safety. An anecdote of an occurrence, showing his perfect sagacity, which happened during this expedition, which was made known [to the author], is here related, that readers may derive profit therefrom: and that anecdote is as follows. A milch sheep, from among his flocks, had been lost for some time — nearly a month and a half — during this inroad. One day, Malik Nusrat-ud-Din was moving round the camp among the tents, after the force had been encamped at that same place a week, and every one had set up something or other to shade himself. Suddenly, during his perambulation, the bleating of a sheep reached his ear. He immediately said to his attendants: That is the bleating of my sheep." They proceeded in the direction, and found that it was as that Amir-i-Ghazi had said: the animal was there, and they brought back the [stray] sheep again. Many other acts of his sagacity and intelligence occurred during this expedition, and one of them is as follows. At the time when the Rae of Kalinjar faced about and retired routed before him, Malik Nusrat-ud-Din, Ta-yasa'i, pursued him.