The Nāṣirī Generations 258.2.2

258.2.2

After capturing Utrar and martyring its inhabitants, they [the Mughals] marched, from thence, towards Bukhara; and, on the first of the month of Zi-Hijjah, 616 H., induced to open them and submit, while another statement is, that the city was surprised. However this may be, its walls were razed to the ground, to make it “the Fortunate City” perhaps. The Bahadur, Ta-ir, whose name will frequently appear in the text, farther on, was sent, in advance, to summon Nur. The place submitted, it and its dependencies were bestowed as an appanage upon the Bahadur, Sahudah or Swidae, as he is also called, the inhabitants paid a year’s tribute in advance, and received security for life and property, and were not further molested. At the end of the year 616 H. [February, 1220 A.D. — not the 19th of June, 1219 A.D., as we are told in “Mongols Proper” for the year, 617 H., began on the 7th March, 1220], the Mughal hosts appeared before Bukhara, and the felt tent of the Chingiz Khan was pitched facing the citadel. There was no “several days’ siege” whatever.