The Nāṣirī Generations 259.3

259.3

Maliks of Ghur. The city of Firuz-koh was made over to Malik Mubariz-ud-Din, the Sabzwari, and the fort Tulak was placed under the charge of the Amir, Habashi-i-Nezah-war [expert at the lance]; and, in every fortress and city, the Sultan located one of the distinguished Maliks among the Turks and Tajziks. When Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, fled towards Mazandaran, and the armies of Islam became dispersed and disorganized, the Chingiz Khan had taken complete possession of the territory of Samrkand, and had despatched a body of horse in pursuit of the Sultan; and other armies were despatched into various parts of Khurasan. Arsalan Khan of Kaialik, who was a Musalman, and had [under him] about 6000 [horse-] men, all Musalmans and Ajamis, along with Tulan, the Juzbi, and a Mughal force, was sent against the fortress of Walkh of Tukharistan. whilst the Chingiz Khan, himself, with the centre [main-body] of his host, advanced from Samrkand to the foot of the walls of the fortress of Tirmid, and attacked it. After some days, during which the Musalmans of Tirmid had fought many battles, and had sent great numbers of the Mughals to hell, and many Musalmans had been martyred and made captive, the people of Tirmid were reduced to helplessness by the stones of [discharged from] the catapults of those accursed ones, and they abandoned the place ; and that fortress fell into the hands of the Mughals, who martyred the whole of the inhabitants.