[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) › 257.1.7 # The Nāṣirī Generations 257.1.7 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 257.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [257.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1.7) It was not customary in those days among the tribes of Turkish descent to put captives at once to death, and so Tamur-chi had a do-shakhah \[a sort of portable pillory, described as a block of wood with two horns, hence the term. It may, in those days, have been formed out of two pieces of crooked wood, but what was used in after-years, and continues to be used still, consists of two flat boards with a hollow for the neck, a drawing of which may be seen in Astley’s and other Collections\] fastened round his neck, and thus was he detained in captivity. The Fanakati, Abu-Suliman-i-Da’ud, who finished his History, and dedicated it to the ninth of the Mughal sovereigns of Iran \[what would he have said had he been styled a “Mongol”?\], 287 years before the “saga-loving” writer who has been much quoted lately, Ssanang Setzen, was born, gives the following particulars of Tamur-chi’s escape, which several other historians also relate. Finding an opportunity, Tamur-chi made his escape from the Tanjiuts, taking his do-shakhah along with him, and concealed himself in a lake in the neighbourhood of their camp, in such wise, that, of his person, nothing save his nose could be seen. A party of Tanjiuts was sent in search of him, and among them there chanced to be a Suldus \[also written Sulduz\], named Surghan or Surghan Shirah, the tents of whose family happened to be pitched near that part, when, suddenly, his eye fell upon the fugitive’s nose. - [Previous: 257.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1.6) - [Next: 257.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1.8) - [Up: 257.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.257.1.7) · Pramāṇa