The Nāṣirī Generations 263.1.4
Tabakat-i-Nasiri 263.1.4
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263.1.4
On this command being issued, the Baha-ul-Mulk removed all the valuable property [from Marw] to the fortress of Taj—the Rauzat-us-Safa, and Abu-l-Ghazi, Bahadur, have Yazar and Yaraz, respectively—whither he himself withdrew, and left a Deputy at Marw, while the people, all but those whom fate induced to remain, dispersed into various other places. It was at this crisis that the Nu-yans, Jabah [Yamah] and Swidae [Sahudah], with a large army, appeared before it, as already related, and the chief ecclesiastics, who had remained behind in Marw, afraid of the Mughals, sent a person to those leaders with presents, and tendered submission. They could not stay to he captured ; and, in order to take vengeance because the take possession, and so, contenting themselves with the presents and offerings, passed on without molesting Marw.