Twilight of the Sultanate c10.s3.23

c10.s3.23

⁷⁶ T.M.S., 230 ; Ferishta, I, 168 and T.A., I, 285. The language of Yahyā and Ferishta is quite clear امرای دیگر را فرمان داد تا از گرد حصار دور نشوند (Directed the other nobles not to abandon the siege of the fort.) But Nizāmuddīn Ahmad uses the words برخیزند (rise, that is, raise the siege) in place of دور نشوند (not to get away), and this has misled both Sir Wolseley Haig and B. De, the translator of the *Tabqāt-i-Akbari*, into believing that the Amīrs were ordered to leave the neighbourhood of Tabarhind. T.A., De’s trs. 319 ; C.H.I., III, 219. Later events also show that Yahyā and Ferishta are correct and the mistake of Nizāmuddīn is probably only of the scribe.