The Nāṣirī Generations 261.1.5

261.1.5

The A'zam-ul-Mulk, also styled the A’zam Malik in the Jahan-Kushae, who was the son of ’Imad-ud-Din of Balkh, as mentioned above by our author, who was the Hakim of Nangrahar, and Malik Sher, the Hakim of Kabul, with the Ghuri troops of the Sultan, who had gathered around them, marched upon Ghaznin, and invested the ’Umdat-ul-Mulk in the fort, which is in the middle of the city. After they had placed catapults against it, and besieged it for forty days, they captured the fortress ; but, on the very same day, arrived the Shams-ul-Mulk, the Wazir, whom Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, flying towards Ghaznin by way of Khurasan, had released on reaching the fort of Kajuran, in which Yamin Malik [the Yamin-ul-Mulk] had confined him, and had sent on, in advance, to prepare for his reception at Ghaznin. A week after, the Sultan himself arrived ; and troops began to rally round him from all quarters, as already related under his reign, and as will be noticed farther on. had retired before the Mughal forces and come to Ghaznin, and, from thence, returned again towards the Garm-sir with the intention of proceeding to Sistan. On the way thither, he conferred the territory of Burshor [Purshor] upon Razi-ul-Mulk; and, when Razi-ul-Mulk came to Ghaznin for the purpose of proceeding to Burshor [Purshor], the people of Ghaznin kept him there.