The Nāṣirī Generations 238.16

238.16

Malik Balban—the Almighty have him in His keeping!—withdrew, and by way of the Siwalikh [country], and, with a slight retinue, less than 200 or 300 in number, returned to Uchchah again. Subsequent to these events, Malik Balban came to the determination of undertaking a journey into Khurasan, and proceeding into 'Irak to the presence of Hula'u, the Mughal, who is a Shah-zadah [Prince] of Turkistan, and presented himself before him. He returned from thence, and came back to his own place of residence again [to Uchchah]: and, up to the date of this narrative, which was the year 658 H., he has despatched his own agents, along with the Shahnah [the Mughal Intendant] of the territories of Sind, which was on account of the army of Mughals [then on the Dihli frontier], to the presence of the Court. Please God, it may turn out well and advantageously, and may He long preserve the Sultan of Islam, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Abu-l-Muzaffar-i-Mahmud Shah, on the throne of sovereignty!