The Nāṣirī Generations 263.3.3

263.3.3

After the departure of the Mughal army towards Nishabur, about 5000 fugitives once more assembled, but their cup of misery was not yet full. A body of Mughals, who subsequently arrived there on their way to join Tuli, desired to have their share of slaughter, and so they required that every person in the place should bring out a skirt full of grain for them. By this stratagem all who did so were massacred; and this same detachment slew all they met with on the road to Nishabur. Soon after another body of Mughals, who had separated from the Nu-yan Jabah [Yamah] arrived, and they also put to death all who chanced to come in their way. There was still more misfortune in store for Marw. Some time after, an outbreak of Musalmans against the Mughals took place at Sarakhs, and the Amir, Ziya-ud-Din, 'Ali, set out to suppress it, and the Mughal, Barmas, or Barmias, the Overseer, moved outside Marw, with his following, taking with him the artificers and mechanics of the place, with the object, in case of need, of retiring to Bukhara. Those left within Marw imagined that he had heard news of the Sultan, Jalal-ud-Din's arrival, and that he was preparing to fly. which] the city [stood], in such wise that not a vestige of the buildings thereof remained.