The Nāṣirī Generations 261.2.1

261.2.1

P. de la Croix then goes on to say, first quoting Abu-l-Faraj for “Candahar” [page 6], and then Fadlallah [i.e. Rashid-ud-Din, Fazl-ullah], that the Chingiz Khan determined, on hearing of this defeat, to despatch Tuli, his son, against the Sultan, and was about to send him off with 80,000 horse, when another courier arrived announcing the revolt of Hirat, and, instead, was despatched thither, and continues: “Just after despatching Tulican [Tuli Khan, however, had nothing whatever to do with the second attack upon Hirat. See page 1049, and note 2], and after an unsuccessful attack on of the troops of Islam, reached the Chingiz Khan, he Bamian news reached him of the movements of Coutoucou Noyan [the Kuyan, Fiku, previously sent into “India”], who had arrived within a day’s march of Gelaleddin, who advanced [quoting “Nisavi” and “Fadlallah”] to meet them, although one-fourth superior to his own force, and came upon them just beyond a town called Birouan, within a day’s journey of Ghazna.” This force of Mughals was overthrown as already related above, and at pages 289-90 of this Translation.