The Nāṣirī Generations 238.14

238.14

When this determination and purpose [of the confederates] was represented before the sublime throne, the royal command was given to repel that faction, and Malik Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam with the whole of the Maliks and Amirs, marched against the troops of Malik Balban. On the 15th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Awwal, 655 H., when, within the limits of [the districts of] Kuhram and Samanah, they drew near [Malik Balban’s army], a faction of seditious [persons] of the capital city, Dihli, consisting of turban wearers [priest-hood] and cap-wearers [Sayyids], wrote and despatched letters secretly to Malik Balban, soliciting him to come thither, saying : “ In order that we may deliver up the city to thee it behoveth thee to set out for it.” Malik Balban accordingly moved towards Dihli, and, on Thursday, the 6th of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, 655 H., he [and Kutlugh Khan and their forces] reached the environs and suburbs of the city; but his conceptions were not realized, and the faction, who had written letters to him, had, by the sublime command, left the city.