1869.] Translations from the Tdr'ikh i Firuz Shdhi. 193 



lie committed, the people of Delhi were the more struck with profound 

 wonder and amazement [and trembling came over the hearts of the 

 people]. 



In the same year that Ulugh Khan and Nucrat Khan were sent into 

 Gujrat, Zafar Khan was deputed to Siwistan, which (province) had been 

 seized upon by Qaldi, and his brother with a party of Mughuls. 



Zafar Khan accordingly marched thither with a large force, and 

 having invested the fort of Siwistan, succeeded in capturing the strong- 

 hold with the aid only of sword and arrow, and dagger and spear, with- 

 out having recourse to war engines and projecting machines of a larger 

 kind. The Mughuls, moreover, from the interior of the fort shot 

 arrows in every direction, in so much that it was not possible for a bird 

 ever to approach it ; yet in spite of all this Zafar Khan came off vic- 

 torious by the use of sword and arrow only, and having captured 

 £?aldi and his brother, as well as all the Mughuls with their wives and 

 children, he sent the whole party bound, collared, and chained into 

 Delhi. 



In consequence of this success, a profound dread of Zafar Khan was 

 established at Delhi, and Sultan 'Alauddin began to regard him with 

 a malignant eye on account of the hardihood, valour, and gallantry 

 which he had displayed in a manner before unknown in Hindustan. 

 Ulugh Khan, the Sultan's brother, also conceived a feeling of malice 

 and enmity towards him, owing to his consummate generalship, and 

 bravery, which had quite eclipsed his own. 



In that year, he {i. e., Zafar Khan) held the territory of Samanah, 

 and as he had become so famous, Sultan 'Alauddin, who was deeply 

 impregnated with jealousy, was under considerable apprehension 

 regarding him, and anxiously desired one or other of these two 

 alternatives, either that the Khan should be in constant attendance upon 

 him, or else that he should give the Khan some thousand horse, and 

 despatch him towards Lakhnauti to subdue the country, after which he 

 should stay there, and send off the elephants together with his 

 resignation of office*' from thence to Court. Otherwise the Sultan 

 thought of ridding himself of him by administering poison, or putting 

 out his eyes somehow or other. 



* Or rather with Ms tribute, which is the meaning of Ichidmati. Even in 

 later times transfers to Bengal or to Bhakkar were looked upon as punishments. 



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