The Nāṣirī Generations 279.1

279.1

A tradition to this effect had been handed down from the ancients — May God reward them! — that, when the outbreak of the Turks should arise, and the narrow-eyed should seize upon the universe, and they should devastate the countries of ’Ajam and kingdoms of I-ran, whenever an army of them should reach Lohor, the dominion of that race would begin to decline, and the power of the infidels to diminish, pose. Such being the case, when the reinforcements despatched by the Ka’an joined him, the Juzbi, Tulkulu, was enabled to resume the offensive; and the Khita-is, having been beaten in the open field, took shelter within the walls of the capital, which was soon after closely invested, by the Mughals on one side, and the Maha-Chinis on the other.