40 Translations from the T&rilili i Firuz ShdJu. [No. 1, 



tankalis, and the army was numerous and was never disbanded. The 

 recruits also of the whole empire in passing muster before the 'Arz 

 i Mcmdlih were examined in archery, and such only were entered 

 fcaliili sliudan) as were archers and had good armours. By order of 

 the Sultan also, the prices of horses and the brand (dagh) were re- 

 gulated.] 



[As soon then the cheapness of all necessaries of life had been 

 secured, and a large standing army could be entertained, the Mughuls 

 were defeated each time they invaded Dihli or the Dihli territory, and 

 were slain, or captured, and the standard of Islam obtained one signal 

 victory after the other over them. Several thousand Mughuls with 

 ropes on their necks were brought to Dihli and trampled to death by 

 elephants. Of their heads, they formed a large platform (cliautarahj, 

 or made turrets of the Mughul skulls, and the stench in the city of 

 the dead bodies of such as had been killed in battle or had been exe- 

 cuted in Dihli, was very great. The army of Islam gained in fact 

 such victories over the Mughuls, that a Buaspah would bring in ten 

 Mughuls with ropes on their necks, or a siugle Musalman trooper would 

 drive one hundred Mughuls before himself.] 



[Thus on one occasion 'Ali Beg and Tartak (?) who were the leaders of 

 the Mughul army (the said 'Ali Beg was supposed to be a descendant of 

 Chingiz Khan, the accursed), occupied with thirty, forty thousand Mu- 

 ghuls the foot of the hills in the district of Amrohah, and Sultan ' Alaud- 

 din sent against them Malik Atabak(?), the master of horse. He attacked 

 them in the confines of Amrohah, and Grod gave the army of Islam the 

 victory. The said 'Ali Beg and Tartak were both caught alive, and the 

 greater part of their army was slain and completely overthrown ; on the 

 battlefields heaps were erected of dead Mughuls, and a rich harvest 



(a blunder which goes through the editions of Barani and Badaoni) ; ^jL*»a/o 

 according to Fuller's MS., is a mistake for ^j** • I. 21, insert a_j after ^j 

 and write -j^ for *Jjj|^, P ■ 324, I. 9, dele j after o^^" which, like ,*/oUj 

 has the Igdfat ; I. 16, <^.*»f^s:\> is very doubtful for 8\jsr& • for &^jj,J| 

 read 2f«>jji*J«SJ| ■ I. 18, [*oj is absurd. P. 325, I. 5, read iXif for iXxf • I. 10, 

 read Ja.i j^ak^o for jja» only ; 1. 11, read ^jlle • I. 12, read Oof j I. 13, read 

 <Xji>*JU> muta'addhjah for &j&xs.jo } or <$j &'i*jo miCtad Wvi (many) ; 1. 22 ; Me tli< 

 . beforejUaa*. where the apodosis commences. 



