The Nāṣirī Generations 237.2

237.2

During his own lifetime, the august Sultan [I-yal-timish] conferred upon him, in marriage, a daughter of Malik [Sultan] Baha-ud-Din, Tughril, of Bhianah, which territory and adjacent parts were, in the beginning of the Musalman rule, rendered flourishing and cultivated by him. By this connexion, in the reign of Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah—May his sovereignty continue!—Bhianah was made Arsalan Khan’s fief. Some years subsequent to this, the dignity of Wakil-i-Dar [Representative in Darbar] was entrusted to him. Subsequently, when the preserved city of Tabarhindah was recovered from the dependents of Sher Khan [Malik Nusrat-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Sher Khan-i-Sunkar], it was made over to his charge, in the month of Zi-Hijjah, 651 H. After that, when by the sublime order of the Court, the Khan-i-Mu'azzam, Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, had departed, and gone to Nag-awr, and proposed to return again to the service of the Court, Arsalan Khan-i-Sanjar attached himself to his service and accompanied him. When they arrived at the capital, Arsalan Khan-i-Sanjar received honour at the Court, the asylum of the universe, and returned again to Tabarhindah.