The Nāṣirī Generations 265.2

265.2

The Chingiz Khan, himself, advanced from the banks of the Sind river in pursuit of the Ighraki Musalmans, who formed a very large force, and a countless number of men, and proceeded towards Gibari. He took the fortress of Giban and other forts of the territory of the Koh-payah [hill-skirts], and slew the Musalmans. For a period of three months he halted in the Gibari territory and the Koh-payah; and, from thence, the Chingiz Khan despatched envoys to the presence of the august Sultan, Shams-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, I-yal-timish—May he rest in peace ! — as he was entertaining the design of conducting his army towards Hindustan, “and of returning, by way of the Koh-i-Kara-chal and Kam-rud, to the country of Chin; but, although he was burning shoulder-bones [of sheep] continually and examining them, he used not to find permission augured that he should enter Hind, when swift messengers brought information to him from Tamghaj and Tingit, that the Khans of Tingit, and Tamghaj were in a state of revolt, and that the loss of those territories was impending; and, as a matter of necessity, he returned from the Koh-payah of Gibari. The whole of the mountains [of that tract] were blocked with snow, and, by the Chingiz Khan's command, they used to sweep it away ; and, by way of the passes of the territory of Ghaznin and Kabul, he returned to Turkistan and Kashghar. From Gibari, in the depth of the winter season, he despatched Uktae with an army of Mughal troops into Ghur and Khurasan.