The Nāṣirī Generations 244.6.2

244.6.2

By the death of ‘Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan, the affairs of Malik Kutlugh Khan declined, and he [‘Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan] met his doom at Bhara’ij, in the month of Rajab, 653 H. Since those seditions still continued in Hindustan, and some of the Amirs withdrew their heads from the yoke of obedience to the sublime Court, with the necessity of quelling that sedition and tranquillizing the servants of the victorious Nasiri dynasty, the sublime standards were put in motion from the capital, Dihli, on Thursday, the last day of the month of Shawwal, 653 H., with the intention of marching into Hindustan. When the royal tent was pitched at Talh-pat, as the [contingent] forces of the Siwalikh [districts], which were the fiefs of Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, had been delayed in the completion of their equipment for the expedition, Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam set out for Hansi from the camp at Talh-pat, on Sunday, the 17th of the month of Zi-Ka’dah, 653 H. On reaching the Hansi territory, he, with the utmost celerity, issued his mandate, so that, in the space of fourteen days, the troops of the Siwalikh, Hansi, SursutI, Jind [Jhind], and Barwalah, and confines of that territory, assembled so fully organized and equipped, numerous, and well provided with warlike apparatus, that you would say they were a mountain of iron when still, and a tempestuous sea when in motion.