[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) › 285.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 285.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 285.1 - **Language:** English ### [285.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.285.1) An astonishing anecdote, which was heard from the Khwajah \[opulent merchant\], whose word is reliable, whom they used to style Rashid-ud-Din, the Hakim, a native of Balkh, is here related, in order that it may be acceptable to the Sultan of the Sultans of Islam. This Khwajah, Rashid-ud-Din, the Hakim, had come into Hindustan from Khurasan, in the year 648 H., for purposes of trade, and he accompanied the author of this Tabakat, Minhaj-i-Saraj, on a journey \[from Dihli\] to Multan. He related as follows: One of the Mughal lords, in the territory of Kara-Kuram, who possessed numerous followers and servants and great wealth, \[died and\] went to hell. They accordingly caused a place to be prepared, with the utmost ceremony, for the interment of that accursed one, and placed with him arms and other effects, and furniture and utensils in great quantity. A couch also, adorned and decorated, they had prepared; and desired to bury, along with him, the most loved of his people. They consulted together as to whom among his servants they should inter who would be the one to whom he was most attached. “There was a youth of the confines of Tirmid of Khurasan, who, in his childhood, had fallen captive into the hands of this Mughal gabr, in the beginning of the misfortunes of Khurasan; - [Previous: 284.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.284.3.6) - [Next: 285.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.285.2) - [Up: 285](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.285) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.285.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.285.1) · Pramāṇa