The Nāṣirī Generations 244.8.5

244.8.5

On Monday, the 4th of the month of Safar 658 H., the sublime standards of victory pushed forward into the Koh-payah, and, in the first advance, made a march of nearly fifty kuroh and fell unexpectedly and unawares upon the contumacious rebels of that tract. All those that were on the mountain sides, in the deep defiles, and great ravines, were taken and were brought under the swords of the Musalmans. For a period of twenty days he [Ulugh Khan-i-Azam] continued to move about that Koh-payah in every direction. The dwelling-places and villages of those mountaineers were on the summits of the high hills, and the whole of their edifices on the acclivities of rocks, so that you would say they were, in altitude, equal to the stars, and even with the sky. By command of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, the whole of those places which, in strength, might compare with the tale told of the wall of Sikandar in solidity, were captured and plundered, and the people of those places, who were knaves, Hindus, thieves, and high-way robbers, were all put to the sword. The Ulugh Khani orders to that army of holy warriors were, that whoever should bring in a head should receive one tangah of silver, and whoever brought in a man alive two tangahs of silver from the private treasurer.