[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) › 278.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 278.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 278.1 - **Language:** English ### [278.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.278.1) After the infidel Mughals, and Tatars, had taken their departure from Hirat and its territory, these sixteen persons — all men, it appears — issued from their places of concealment, and assembled before the shop of a certain halwa-i or confectioner, and began to look about them in all directions. Seeing no one, they stroked their faces and exclaimed: “Thanks be unto God, that during our existence we can once more breathe freely! After this, these sixteen, the unfortunate remnant of the inhabitants of Hirat, were joined by twenty-four others from the places adjacent to that city; and, for sixteen years, it is said, “there were no other inhabitants in Khurasan; and, for some time, from the banks of the Jihun or Amuiah to the territory of Astar-abad, if there were any people who had escaped with their lives in some out-of-the-way place, they must have existed upon such things as the dead left unconsumed.” These forty persons passed their time in the tomb of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, Ghuri, which had not been destroyed by the infidels. A full account of the matter of these persons, and their names, is recorded in the History of Hirat. In the year 635 H. — but Alfi says in 634 H. — Uktae Ka'an gave orders that the cities of Khurasan destroyed by the Mughals should be restored, and among them was Hirat; - [Previous: 277](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.277) - [Next: 278.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.278.2) - [Up: 278](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.278) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.278.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.278.1) · Pramāṇa