History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.124

c10.124

The situation with which the Sultan was confronted caused him grave anxiety. Away from the capital, in a place where he could not at once concentrate all his forces, he found it a difficult task to suppress the revolt. The inadequacy of men, munitions and money at first induced the Sultan to go to the capital and then having fully equipped his army to march against ‘Ain-al-Mulk. He consulted his nobles on the subject, but the foreign amirs who entertained feelings of jealousy and hostility towards the native amirs, and who were anxious for the speedy discomfiture of ‘Ain-al-Mulk who belonged to Hind, unanimously urged the adoption of prompt measures to counteract the designs of the Malik. The inadvisability of going to the capital was obvious, for in the meantime the enemy would have The image provided is blank. There is no text to transcribe.