The Nāṣirī Generations 258.1.3

258.1.3

As soon as morning arrived, Karachah and his followers, after being reproached and reviled for their ingratitude to their sovereign, were all put to the sword, and the inhabitants of the place were removed outside into the plain and butchered — “the lives of the inhabitants were spared,” says Mr. H. H. Howorth in his “Mongols Proper.” The Gha-ir Khan threw himself into the citadel, with 20,000 men — some say 8000, and some, 6000 — all resolved to fight to the last, and held out for another month, during which they made several sallies, and slew a vast number of the Mughal army. At last, the Gha-ir Khan was left with but two of his followers; and no shelter remained to them but the flat roof of his dwelling. These two soldiers fell at his side, and then the Gha-ir Khan, whom the Mughals were expressly commanded to capture alive if possible, was made prisoner, and on the neck of Inal Juk they placed a yoke — a play on the word Juk, which signifies a yoke for oxen, a collar. The citadel of Utrar was levelled with the dust, and of the few people of the place, and master artificers, who had escaped the massacre, some were imprisoned, and some were driven along with the army to exercise their trades in the Mughal camp, together with the Gha-ir Khan in chains. As the Chingiz Khan was then before Samrkand, his sons set out to join him there, and to the Gha-ir Khan the cup of death was administered at Kiwak Sarae, a name near Samrkand.