The Nāṣirī Generations 258.2.3

258.2.3

When night set in, the Amirs commanding the troops there, Kiwak Khan, son of Hamid-i-Bur [an elder brother of the Hajib, Burak, the Kara-Khita-i, who subsequently usurped the sovereignty of Kirman, subordinate to the Mughals, after that ingrate had compassed the murder of Ghiyas-ud-Din, the Sultan’s son, and ruler of that territory], Kiwak Khan, Sunj Khan, Bughrae Khan, and Kashlu [by some Kashli, which is merely another form of the title] Khan, with 20,000—but some writers of Mughal proclivities make the number 30,000, in the same manner as they always exaggerate the numbers of the Musalmans—came out, by one of the gates, in order to make a night attack upon the invaders, but, the enemy having got word of it, they were encountered and defeated by the Mughal advance. The great men of Bukhara, consisting of ecclesiastics, doctors of the law, and distinguished persons, issued forth from the city next day [the 10th of Zi-Hijjah], at dawn, and strove, by the manifestation of submission and eloquent appeals, to make terms whereby the inhabitants might be saved from the violent blast of the invader’s wrath. The Chingiz Khan entered the city in order to view it;