The Nāṣirī Generations 261.1.1

261.1.1

Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, sent his commands to Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of 'Ali-i-Khar-post [the ass-skinned], the Ghuri, a man of experience, a valiant warrior, and of considerable firmness, who, some time previously, for a period of ten [two ?] years, had held out the fortress of Nasir Koh of Talkan, against the forces of Khwarazm Shah, and who, in Ghur and Khurasan, had, consequently, become famed and renowned, and whose line was of the great Maliks of Ghur, to set out from Burshor [Purshor — Peshawar ?], which was his fief, and proceed to Ghaznin ; and, when he arrived there, the forces of Islam turned their faces towards him. In the capital city of Ghaznin, great numbers of troops assembled, in such wise, that about 130,000 horse, all brave soldiers and completely armed, were mustered with the intention of undertaking this important enterprise, that he should organize the army, and suddenly fall upon the forces of the Chingiz Khan who was then encamped at the Pushtah-i-Nu'man, and [endeavour to] overcome him.