The Nāṣirī Generations 258.3.2

258.3.2

and the troops in Samrkand, and the people, moved out to give battle. On the ambuscade being drawn, defeat befell the troops of Islam and the people of Samrkand, and nearly 50,000 Musalmans became martyrs. Subsequently to that, for a period of ten days or a little over, the Mughals took up a position round about Samrkand. Within the walls of that city, on the part of Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, was a force of 60,000 horse, consisting of Turks, Ghuris, Tajziks, Khalj, and Karlughs, and all the Maliks of Ghur, such as Khar-zor Malik [Malik ?], and Zangi-i-Khar-Jam [Cham ?], and other Maliks of Ghur, were there. On the day of ’Ashura, the 10th of the month of Muharram, 617 H., the Mughals took Samrkand, and burnt that city and destroyed it, and made captives of some [of the inhabitants, and put the rest to the sword]. Bodies of troops were nominated to various parts of Mawara-un-Nahr, Farghanah, and Bilasa-ghun, and destroyed all the cities, and martyred all their inhabitants. Mughal armies were also despatched to take possession of different parts of the dominions [of the Khwarazmi Sultan], and forces were sent from Upper Turkistan to pursue Kashlu Khan, the Tatar, who was a king, and the son of a king, of the Tatar tribes, who had seized and brought [away] the Gur Khan of Kara-Khita; and they captured him [Kashlu Khan] on the boundaries of Jab and Kikrab which is Ghuzzistan, and the hill tracts of Samrkand; and they slew him.