[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 244.6 # The Nāṣirī Generations 244.6 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 244.6 - **Language:** English ### [244.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.1) After Kutlugh Khan proceeded towards Awadh, a considerable period elapsed, \[when\] the eventualities of destiny became the cause of disaffection displaying itself, and, on several occasions, mandates, which were issued on that subject, were treated with indifference. ’Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan still continued to use great efforts to enkindle the fires of sedition in order that, perhaps, he might, by fraud and deception, with the mud-mortar of his own vicious artifice, overspread the sun of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam's good fortune, and veil the moon of that great chief's glory with the cloak of his own knavery, but the favour of the Eternal without beginning, and the all-sufficiency of the Eternal without end, used to be the averter of that depravity. Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Mah-Peshani \[of the moon-like brow\] — God preserve him! — who had been detained and imprisoned by Malik Kutlugh Khan, and to whom the government of Bhara’ij had been entrusted by the Court, and on which account he had fallen into captivity, by his own manly stratagem, freed himself from Awadh and the hands of wicked wretches, crossed the river Sar’u in a boat, and, with a small force, advanced towards Bhara’ij. The decree of the Creator was on such wise that the prosperity of the Turks rose victorious, and the influence of the Hindus sank into the dust of defeat. ‘Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan fled discomfited before him, and was taken prisoner, and the sun of his existence set in death. ### [244.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.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. ### [244.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.3) He reached the capital, Dihli \[with this force\], on the 3rd of the month of Zi-Hijjah, and halted at the capital seventeen days for the purpose of further completing his preparations, and for the purpose of directing the assembling of the \[contingent\] troops of the Koh-payah of Mewat. On the 19th of Zi-Hijjah, with an army resplendent with arms, and ranks arrayed with warriors, he proceeded towards the Sultan’s camp; and in the month of Muharram, 654 H., they \[the Sultan and his army\] reached the frontiers of Awadh. ### [244.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.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. ### [244.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.5) As Malik Kutlugh Khan found it impossible to make any further resistance within the limits of Hindustan, he came, through the midst of the independent \[Hindu\] tribes, towards Santur, and in that mountainous tract sought shelter, and took up his abode. All \[the people of that part\] were wont to serve him, for he was a great Malik, and one among the grandees, and a servant of the Court, and one of the Turk Maliks, and had just claims upon them all. Wherever he used to come, on account of what was owed him for the past, and having regard for the possible issue of his affairs, they were wont to hold him in veneration. When he sought safety and protection in the Santur mountains, Ranah Ran-pal \[Ran-pala\], the Hindi, who held the chieftain-ship among the Hindus—and it was the usage among that people to protect those who sought shelter with them—assisted Malik Kutlugh Khan. ### [244.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.6) When the report of that came to the sublime hearing, the royal standards, in the beginning of the month of Rabi'-ul-Awwal, 655 H., moved towards Santur, and Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, with his own personal forces, and the Maliks of the Court \[with their troops\], used great exertions in those mountains, and carried on holy war, as by the faith enjoined, in the defiles of the hills and passes, and on the crests of the mountains of Santur, in describing which the eye of intellect would be bewildered, gained the advantage \[over the infidels\], and penetrated as far as the fort and territory of Silmur \[i. e. Sirmur\] which is in the possession of that great Rae. All the Raes round about pay homage to him and do his bidding. He fled before the army of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam ; and the whole of the market-place and city \[town ?\] of Silmur was plundered by the Musalman troops. The followers of Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam acquired power over a place where the troops of Islam, in any reign, had never before penetrated ; and, by the grace of the favour of the Creator, the Glorious, the Most High, and the aid of the Divine assistance, with great booty, Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam \[with his forces\] reached the sublime presence, and the illustrious capital, Dihli, under the shadow of the august standards of the kingdom, on the 25th of the month of Rabi’-ul-Akhir, 655 H. ### [244.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.7) On the return of the sublime standards to the capital, Malik Kutlugh Khan issued from the mountains of Santur, and Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, had \[previously\] marched out of the territory of Sind and advanced to the vicinity of the river Biah. These two great Maliks \[with their followers\] effected a junction together, and turned their faces towards Samanah and Kuhram, and began to take possession of the country. When intimation of that assemblage and this audacity reached the royal hearing, Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, Malik Saif-ud-Din, I-bak-i-Kashli Khan \[his brother\], with other Maliks of the Court, and troops, were appointed to proceed for the purpose of quelling this sedition. ### [244.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6.8) Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam moved from Dihli on Thursday, the 15th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Awwal, 655 H., and pushed on with the utmost expedition to the limits of Kaithal; and Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan and Malik Kutlugh Khan were in that vicinity. When they drew near towards each other — all brethren and all friends of each other, two hosts of one dynasty, two cavalcades of one Court, two armies of one habitation, two wings of one main body — never could there be a case more wonderful than this ! All were cronies of one purse, and messmates over one dish, between whom, Satan, the accursed, disclosed such discord. A gang of demon-natured men, for their own carnal objects, and of their infernal malignity, were sowing dissension among those brethren and were raising the banner of sedition, and, for the aggrandisement of their own affairs, were setting things by the ears. Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, in accordance with his own wise policy, was keeping his own personal followers together with those of Malik Sher Khan-i-Sunkar, who was his brother and the son of his paternal uncle, separate from the troops of \[the contingents forming\] the centre of the Sultan’s forces, and Malik Saif-ud-Din, I-bak-i-Kashli Khan, the Amir-i-Hajib, who was his own full brother, with the Maliks of the Court, and the \[contingent\] troops of the centre, and the elephants, separate also, in such wise that those two columns of the army were appearing like two efficient and distinct hosts. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.244.6) · Pramāṇa