The Nāṣirī Generations 244.6.4

244.6.4

Malik Kutlugh Khan, and those Amirs who followed him—notwithstanding they were all vassals of the sublime Court, still, through contingencies and urgent obstacles of fate, the countenance of their good-fortune was strewn with dust—left Awadh and crossed the river Sar’u, and receded before the royal army. By the sublime command, in the month of Muharram, 654 H., Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, with numerous forces, started in pursuit of them but, as separation had taken place among them [through] the obstacles of the jangals of Hindustan, the deep ravines, and denseness of numerous forests Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam did not find them. He pushed on until near to Badi-kot and the frontiers of Tirhut, and ravaged the whole of the independent [Hindu] tribes and Raes, and faced about to return to the sublime threshold, with vast booty, in safety and in opulence. Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam. with the troops, having crossed the river Sar’u, from Awadh, the sublime standards were directed to return to the capital. When Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, from pursuing those [disaffected] Amirs, turned his face to return to the Sultan’s encampment, he reached it in the limits of Kasmandah and, on Saturday, the 16th of the month of Rabi’-ul-Awwal, 654 H., [the entire force] crossed the river Gang and they reached the illustrious seat of government, Dihli, on the 4th of Rabi'-ul-Akhir.