The Nāṣirī Generations 238.4

238.4

From these statements of our author, it would appear, that 'Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Yuz-Baki, would not allow Jalal-ud-Din, Mas'ud-i-Jani—otherwise Kutlugh [Kulich] Khan—if he ever went there, to assume authority, or that he had died suddenly, and 'Izz-ud-Din, Balban, had assumed the government. Had the word been Yuz-Bak, and not Yuz-Baki, we might safely assume that he was Tughril Khan-i-Yuz-Bak's, otherwise Sultan Mughis-ud-Din's, son, and the same that had been made prisoner with his father in the disastrous retreat from Kamrud [just related at page 766], and named successor by him. This assumpa man impetuous and gallant, of good disposition, and the votary of ’Ulama, upright and good men, and recluses. The august Sultan [I-yal-timish] purchased him of From what our author states in different places in this work, it may be supposed, merely, that, when Malik Jalal-ud-Din [Kulij Khan], Mas’ud Shah, son of the late Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Jani, was appointed to the government of Lakhanawati, in the last month of the year 656 H., there must either have been a vacancy, or the Court had determined to oust Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Tughril Khan-i-Yuz-Bak, who had invaded it, and usurped the fief; and, if the former, it must, in all probability, have been caused by his death.