The Nāṣirī Generations 225.6

225.6

In this same year likewise [642 H.], the Rae of Jaj-nagar, in order to avenge the plundering of Katasin, which had taken place the preceding year, as has been already recorded, having turned his face towards the Lakhanawati territory, on Tuesday, the 13th of the month of Shawwal, 642 H., the army of infidels of Jaj-nagar, consisting of elephants, and payiks [foot-men] in great numbers, arrived opposite Lakhanawati. Malik Tughril-i-Tughan Khan came out of the city to confront them. The infidel host, on coming beyond the frontier of the Jaj-nagar territory, first took Lakhan-or; and Fakhr-ul-Mulk, Karim-ud-Din, Laghri, who was the feudatory of Lakhan-or, with a body of Musalmans, they made martyrs of, and, after that, appeared before the gate of Lakhanawati The second day after that, swift messengers arrived from above [the Do-abah and Awadh, &c.] and gave information respecting the army of Islam that it was near at hand. Panic now took possession of the infidels, and they decamped.