The Nāṣirī Generations 287.5.1

287.5.1

Hulaku perceived it was useless to send envoys again, and he therefore directed all the Mughal troops that were in ’Irak and other parts to advance, and close in upon the Mulahidah territory. Those on the right [Bustam being the centre], in Mazandaran, were under Buka Timur and the Nu-yin, Kuka I-yalka, while those on the left, under Nikudar Oghul and the Nu-yin, Kaibu, were to advance by way of Khwar—the name of a district or tract of country in the neighbourhood of Rai—which signifies low or sloping ground, but not necessarily "salt"—and Simnan, while Hulaku himself, with one toman of picked troops, advanced from Bustam on the 10th of Sha’ban, 654 H. Hulaku, notwithstanding he had said he would send no more envoys, again had recourse to negotiation, but, with the treachery inherent in the Mughal, and in some other northern barbarians, sent to Khur Shah saying: "Although our standards have advanced, and notwithstanding all the misdeeds he has been guilty of, if Khur Shah presents himself, he will be received; the past will be forgotten, and he will be exalted." After the Mughals had passed Firuz-koh, the envoys again returned, accompanied by Khur Shah's Wazir-i-Khas—Prime Minister—Kai-Kubad, to intimate that his master had agreed to demolish all the fortresses.