The Nāṣirī Generations 224.5

224.5

Had it been the van or the main body, in this place would have been the tracks of the rest of their army, but, on this place, there are no tracks: keep up your hearts, for we are on the rear of the enemy!” With these prognostics of victory he remounted, and, at dawn the following morning, came up with those infidels, and sent the whole [!] of them to hell, and captured the canopy of state, and the standards of the Rae of Kālinjar, and returned in safety from that expedition. When the reign of the Sultān [Rukn-ud-Dīn, Fīrūz Shāh] terminated, and Malik Ghiyās-ud-Dīn, Muhammad Shāh [his brother], son of Sultān Shams-ud-Dīn, I-yal-timish, became the victim of misfortune, Sultān Raziyyat conferred [the fief of] Awadh upon Malik Nusrat-ud-Dīn, Tā-yasa’ī; and, at the period when Malik ’Alā-ud-Dīn, Jānī, and Malik Saif-ud-Dīn, Kūjī, advanced to the gate of the city [of Dihlī], and began to act in a rebellious manner, he set out from Awadh for the sublime Court of Sovereignty to render his services. Suddenly and unexpectedly, Malik Kūjī moved against him, and took Malik Nusrat-ud-Dīn, Tā-yasa’ī, prisoner. He was overcome by sickness at the time, and the malady carried him off, and he died The mercy of the Almighty be upon him!