History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c9.5.4

c9.5.4

The Shaikh tried in vain to appease the wrath of Abu Sa‘id and his officers who clamoured for his life. Chauban continued his march and reached Kuhar or Kurhā, called Sari Kemash by Abul Fedā and Ibrahimabad by Hamdullah, which was only a day’s journey from the Sultan’s camp. But most of Chauban’s men deserted him and went over to the side of Abu Sa‘id. In despair, he fled to Khorasan and then to Herat, where he sought refuge with Malik Ghiyas-al-Din, but the latter betrayed him, and strangled him to death by the orders of his suzerain.