The Nāṣirī Generations 288.4.2

288.4.2

On the 10th of August the Ka’an visited the works, and gave orders for scaling the walls the following night. The Mughals gained the top of the walls, but were repulsed with great slaughter, and even pursued. “Mengko,” in desperation, now ordered a general assault, and went in person to direct it. A storm arose at the time, and during the attack several ladders were blown down. On this, a fearful carnage ensued; vast numbers of the Mughals perished, and among them was the Ka’an, whose body was found pierced with many wounds. Bukhara, and, adding them to those which they had purchased in Upper Turkistan, despatched them [to Mangu Khan's army]. They also related, that, after some time, the king of Chin brought such an immense army, as cannot come within the compass of number or computation, and, in the end, Mangu Khan, and his army, were overthrown, and reached a mountain [range] round about [nearly] the whole of which range was the sea, and morass; and, in that mountain [range], Mangu Khan, with the whole of the Mughal army, perished from famine. The reign of Mangu Khan was nine years. May Almighty God prolong the reign of the present matter concerning the Dihli kingdom, which happened in the reign of his patron, and during the reign of Mangu Ka’an.