The Nāṣirī Generations 268.1

268.1

The fortress of Saif-rud of Ghur is the strongest of all the strongholds of the jibal [mountain tracts], and the foundation of it had been laid by the father of the Sultans Ghiyas-ud-Din, and Mu'izz-ud-Din — Sultan Baha-ud-Din, Sam, son of 'Izz-ud-Din, Al-Husain. When Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, retired from before Balkh towards Mazandaran, he commanded so that Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, should put the fortress in a state of repair. There was but little time [to do it in], and he was unable to construct more than a reservoir in the upper part of it; for, two months after the command was given, the Mughal army entered [that part], and the possibility of constructing anything more did not offer itself. In that reservoir he collected sufficient water for about forty days' supply for the people of the fortress. The Mughal troops carried their depredations into all parts of Ghur; and the whole of the quadrupeds of every kind, from all parts, fell into the hands of the infidels, and the people of Ghur attained martyrdom, through a diram of four dangs.