The Nāṣirī Generations 238.15

238.15

When Malik Balban reached the Bagh-i-Jud [the Jud Garden] which is in the environs of the city of Dihli, along with Malik Kutlugh Khan and the Malikah-i-Jahan [Sultan Nasir-ud-Din’s mother], the account of the expulsion of that faction became known to them, and that flame of the fire of hope [from the faction] was extinguished with the water of disappointment. After the time of forenoon prayers, they advanced to the gate of the city, and made a perambulation round the place. They remained at the Bagh-i-Jud for the night, and, at morning dawn, they came to the determination to retire. On the Friday, which was the 7th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, the troops of Uchchah and Multan, the whole of them, separated from Malik Balban, and went off in bodies in various directions, but the greater number were those [among them] who entered the city, and who joined the service of the sublime Court.