The Nāṣirī Generations 293.1.2

293.1.2

After the capture of Baghdād, on account of the excessive heat and thirstiness of that territory, Hulākū, without making any longer stay there, marched from his camp at the Ḳubbah-i-Shaikh-ul-Mukārim on the 23rd of Ṣafar, and returned to Khānḳīn, where he had left a part of his urdū and heavy war materials. By this time, the treasures of Baghdād, and the valuables taken in the fortresses of the Mulāhidah, and such other plunder as had been carried away from the frontiers of Rūm, Arman, Karj, and other parts, had been collected there, in the royal treasury, which, along with his adviser, Nāṣir-ud-Dīn, son of ’Alā-ud-Dīn, the Ṣāḥib or Wazīr of Rai, Hulākū despatched towards Āẕarbāījān. Malik Majd-ud-Dīn, the Tabrīzī, who was one of the ingenious and skilful men of that country, was directed to construct a strong fortress on a mountain on the shore of the little sea of Urūmī and Salmās—the Lake Urūmīah—and to melt down all this treasure into or ingots—the only thing in the nature of coin ever mentioned in the accounts of the Mughals at this period—and place them for safe keeping in the new stronghold.