The Nāṣirī Generations 261.2.2

261.2.2

Then we have the astonishing statement [from “Nisavi” it is said] that, after this defeat at Birouan [Barwan], “There was, some days’ journey from thence, a party of Tartars [not Mughals] who were besieging a fortress called Ouala [the Walian of others], who, when they heard of the battle of Birouan, raised the siege and fled, and that “the defeat of the Moguls and Tartars was quickly known to the Emperor, who was still before Bamian.” Then follows the account of its capture and the massacre of every soul. The subsequent statements are generally correct.