The History of Fīrūz Shāh (Baranī) 4.5

4.5

The Sultán remained at Badáún. Malik Chhaju continued to advance. The ráwats and páíks of Hindustán flocked around him like ants or locusts, and the most noted of them received betel from him, and promised to fight against the standards of the Sultán. When the two armies came in sight, the royal forces discharged their arrows. The spiritless rice-eating Hindustánís made a great noise, but lost all their powers ; and the valiant soldiers of the royal army drew their swords and rushed upon them. Malik Chhaju, his nobles and all the Hindustánís, took to flight and dispersed. There was a mawás in the neighbourhood into which Chhaju crept, and a few days after the chief of that mawás sent him to Sultán Jalálu-d dín. The chiefs, adherents, and officers of Chhaju, and the páíks who had been the leaven of his army, were all taken prisoners. Arkali Khán put yokes upon their necks and sent them bound to the Sultán. I, the author of this Táríkh-i Fíroz-Sháhí, heard from Amír Khusrú, who was an attendant of the Court, that when the rebellious maliks and amírs were brought before the Sultán, he held a public darbár. Malik Amír 'Alí, sar-jándár, Malik Ulughchí, and other nobles were conducted into his presence, riding upon camels, with yokes upon their shoulders, their hands tied behind their necks, covered with dust and dirt, and their garments all soiled.