The Nāṣirī Generations 261.2.3

261.2.3

As to some of the originals quoted, which I have examined in order to test the doubtful passages, I find that Rashid-ud-Din’s account is very different. He says that Amin Malik [Yamin-ul-Mulk—Malik Khan of Hirat] joined his sovereign with 50,000 men from the neighbourhood of Ghaznin, that the Sultan married his daughter, that the Sultan and his forces continued the whole winter at and during that time, on the news of his arrival having spread, was joined by Saif-ud-Din, Ighrak, with 40,000 men, and also by the Amirs of Ghur and their followers. He then goes on to say, that, early in the spring, hearing that the Mughals were attacking Walian [our author’s Walisthan], and its being hard pressed, he advanced to Barwan [it was near the sources of the Lohgar river], left all his heavy materials there, and moved to attack them, as related in the notice of Jalal-ud-Din, at page 288, note The Chingiz Khan heard of the first reverse within the limits of Tal-kan, not at Bamian, as De la Croix asserts, and not one word is mentioned about any siege of Bamian, and he, after hearing of the last defeat of his troops, moved at once towards Ghaznin from Tal-kan. The Fanakati mentions Tal-kan of Khurasan, and makes no mention of any siege of Bamian.