[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 268.10 # The Nāṣirī Generations 268.10 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 268.10 - **Language:** English ### [268.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268.10) The next day, the Mughals made preparations to renew the attack ; and Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, the night before the attack, gave directions so that all the great \[blocks\] of stone \[lying about\] on the face of the hill near the khak-rez of the fortress were speedily placed in such a manner that the touch of a child would move them from their places and send them rolling down. More than a hundred great stones as big as mill-stones, and hand-mill-stones, fastened to beams of wood, at the extremity of each beam a millstone, they had drawn out ; and those beams were fastened to the battlements of the fortress by ropes. The whole of the men of the fortress were divided into two bodies : one half were concealed on the top of the ramparts, behind the battlements, and the other half outside the fortress, at the foot of the ramparts, behind the great blocks of stone. Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, enjoined that, until the sound of the kettledrums of the fortress arose, not a person should show himself. - [Previous: 268.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268.9) - [Next: 268.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268.11) - [Up: 268](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.268.10) · Pramāṇa