The Nāṣirī Generations 244.7.5

244.7.5

In the meantime the letters from the city of Dihli reached them, and Malik Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, and Malik Kutlugh Khan turned their faces towards the capital, but returned again from thence without having effected their object [as previously narrated]. Two days subsequently, their design became known to Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, and he became disturbed in mind as to how affairs might be [going on] at the Court, and before the throne of sovereignty, when, after the happening of this strange circumstance [the arrival of the spy in his camp] letters reached him from the city. He set out for the capital, and reached it safe and prosperous under the protection of the Creator, and under the Divine guardianship and keeping, on Monday, the 10th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, 655 H. The royal troops continued at the city of Dihli for a period of seven months, until, in the month of Zi-Hijjah of the before mentioned year, an army of infidel Mughals arrived in the territory of Sind, and the head of those accursed ones was the Nu-yin, Sari. Since Malik Balban-i-Kashlu Khan had brought a Shahnah [Intendant] of that people thither, as a matter of necessity, he had to go to them, and they [the Mughals] dismantled the defences of the citadel of Multan.