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Suddenly, his brother, Malik Taj-ud-Din, \[Hasan\], Habashi-i-'Abd-ul-Malik, Sar-i-Zarrad, to whom they \[the Mughals\] had given the title of Khusrau of Ghur — mention of whom has been previously recorded — with the permission of the Chingiz Khan, returned to Ghur from Talkan ; and from him this anecdote was heard. He stated : “ On a certain occasion we came forth from the presence of the Chingiz Khan and sat down in a tent. Uklan, the Juzbi, along with whom I had come, together with some other Nu-ins, were also seated there; and the greatest in rank among them all was the Juzbi, Uklan. Some persons brought thither two Mughals who, the previous night, when on guard around about the camp, had gone to sleep \[upon their post\]. Uklan, the Juzbi, asked: ‘What Mughal has brought them?’ The Mughal who had done so bent the knee, and replied: ‘I have brought them.’ The former inquired; ‘What offence have they been guilty of? State it.’ He replied: ‘These two men were mounted on horseback, and I was going my rounds and examining the guards. I came up to them, and found them both asleep. I struck their horses over their heads with a whip to let them \[the riders\] know they were culprits for being asleep; and I passed on. This day I have brought them up.’ Uklan, turning his face towards those two Mughals, said: ‘Were ye asleep?’ They both acknowledged it, saying: ‘We were.’ He commanded, saying: ‘Put one of them to death, and fasten his head to the locks of the other, and parade the latter round the whole camp, and then put him to death also.’ They \[accusers and accused\] all made their obeisance, and, at once, \[the former\] carried out the command. I was riveted in astonishment, and said to Uklan, the Juzbi: ‘There was no evidence or proof on the part of that Mughal \[the accuser\], and, when they \[the accused\] were well aware that, the punishment would be death, why did they confess? for, if they had denied \[the charge\], they would have escaped being killed.’ Uklan, the Juzbi, said: ‘Why are you astonished? You, Tajziks, do such things, and tell lies. A Mughal, were a thousand lives at stake, would choose being killed, but would not speak false; but false speaking is your occupation; and, on account of such things, it is that Almighty God hath sent a calamity like us upon you \[Tajziks\].” I have again returned to the relation of this history. When the Chingiz Khan, after Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Mangbarni, Khwarazm Shah, was defeated, set out in pursuit of the Ighrakis, for Gibari, for a period of three months he halted among those mountains. He used to go out hunting, and for the purpose of coming towards Hindustan, used, continually, to burn shoulder-blades \[of sheep\], but used not to obtain permission \[from the prognostications\], and used not to perceive therefrom omens of victory. His purpose in entering Hindustan was that, mayhap, he might return back into Chin by way of Lakhanawati and Kamrud; and, as he used not, from the portents of the shoulder-blades, to obtain dispensation to do so, he used to delay. Unexpectedly, swift messengers reached him from Tamghaznin, Alfi says he moved from the vicinity of Parshawar, by way of the mountains of Namfan in MSS., but Bamian must be meant\], and that the Ughruk was ordered to march from Buklan to join him on the way to Samrkand. At page 1074, our author plainly states where his Ughruk was left, and that he conversed with a person who had but recently left it \[page 1079\], and his statement with regard to it cannot be doubted in the least. It was left at the Pushtah-i-Nu'man between Tal-kan and Balkh. The pro-Mughal writers, having made the great blunder of mistaking Tae-kan of Kunduz for Tal-kan of Khurasan, make all other places agree with it, as in the case of Andarab, previously referred to. The Chingiz Khan may have had his heavy baggage, waggons, and war materials removed from the Pushtah-i-Nu’man to Buklan subsequently, after he had determined to return by the same route by which he had come, and most probably after the attacks made upon them by the Khalj chief, as related at page 1073. - [Previous: 270](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.270) - [Next: 271.1.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.1.p2) - [Up: 271.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.1.1073](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.1.1073) · Pramāṇa