The Nāṣirī Generations 258.1.2

258.1.2

Towards the end of the year 616 H., they emerged on the frontier of Utrar, at which place the violence had been hatched; and, although they were jaded from their journey and destitute, yet such was the energy, constancy, and intrepidity, which Almighty God had implanted in the nature of the Chingiz Khan and the Mughal army, that, in a short time, they took Utrar and put both small and number were slain by the Mughals, and Umsut their chief — Unis Inial — bent his neck to the yoke. After this Juji returned and joined his father. great and old — to the sword, and left not a soul alive; they martyred the whole of them. defenders were reduced to great straits, at which time the Hajib, Karachah, who had been sent thither with 10,000 more troops to support the Gha-ir Khan, was for capitulating to the enemy, but the Gha-ir Khan, who was well aware that he could expect no mercy from the Mughals, scouted the very idea of surrender, and being guilty of such base ingratitude to his sovereign. Karachah, however, entered into secret understanding with the Mughals [how history has repeated itself within the past year or two!], and, one night, left the place with his contingent, by the Sufi-Sianah gate, and submitted to the enemy, who, without delay, rushed in by that same gate, and captured the city.