The Nāṣirī Generations 244.7.9

244.7.9

In conformity with the prudent advice of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, notwithstanding it was the time of the hot season, and that the army of Islam, on account of the advance of the accursed Mughals, and guarding the frontiers, had experienced trouble, still, as there was expediency in moving, on Tuesday, the 6th of the month of Jamadi-ul-Akhir, 656 H., the sublime standards departed towards the country of Hindustan and advanced, march by march, as far as the boundaries of Karah and Manik-pur. Ulugh Khan-i- A’zam made such exertions in chastising the seditious Hindus and harassing the Ranahs as cannot be conceived. On his reaching that territory [Karah and Manik-pur], Arsalan Khan-i-Sanjar and Malik Kutlugh [Kulich?] Khan, Mas’ud-i-Jani, got away, and out of necessity sent away their families and dependents among the independent [Hindu] tribes, and despatched confidential persons to the presence of Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam asking that he should make a representation before the exalted throne and explain the necessity they were under of withdrawing, and to supplicate that the sublime standards might be directed to return towards the capital on the stipulation that, when the royal standards should reach Dihli, the illustrious capital, Arsalan Khan-i-Sanjar and Kutlugh [Kulich?] Khan, both of them, should present themselves in attendance at the sublime Court, the Asylum of the Universe.