1869.] Translations from the Tarikh i Firuz Shdhi. 189 



din's younger* son in the stronghold of Hansi, while he put to death 

 altogether the sons of Arkali Khan. As for Malikah Jahan and the 

 other ladies of the household, as well as Ahmad Chap, he brought 

 them all into Delhi, and shut them up in his own mansion. 



In the second year of this reign [697, Baddonf], Nuerat Khan was 

 made Wazir. As Sultan 'Alauddin had sent for Malik 'Alaulmulk, the 

 compiler's uncle, he came to Court attended by the Maliks and Amfrs, 

 and brought in elephants and treasure that had been left with him 

 at Karah by the Sultan. In consequence of 'Alaulmalik's having 

 grown excessively obese, and incapable of active duty, he gave him 

 the post of Kotwal instead of his former place of Malikulumara, 

 whereby all the able-bodied convicts [ ? lancliydn i tdzafc] were put 

 under his charge. They also laid hands on the estates [free-holds, 

 amlaJc] and possessions of all the Jalali Maliks and Amirs, Nuerat 

 Khan himself making extraordinary exertions to get hold of their 

 property, and so collecting thousands upon thousands. In fact he 

 brought wealth into the treasury by every means that he could. 



In this year moreover, viz. 696, A. H.,f an inroad of the Mughuls 

 took place, some of them having crossed the river Sincl and entered 

 the country. Ulugh Khan and Zafar Khan with a host of the 

 'Alai and Jalali Amirs, and immense forces were nominated to 

 repel their attack ; and on the confines of Jarimanjur the army of 

 Islam had a severe engagement with the miscreants ; in which the 

 standard of the true faith proved victorious, many of the enemy being 

 slain or captured, and their heads despatched to Delhi. 



After the Multan success, and the capture of Sultan Jalaluddin's 



* The Ed. Bibl. Indica and Firishtah have merely son (Arkali ?). If Major 

 Fuller's MS. had younger son [Buknuddm] what became of Arkali ? Badaoni 

 savs, both were handed over to the Kotwal of Hansi, and ' killed together with 

 the two sons of Arkali. The women of the late emperor, and his remaining 

 children {farzanddn) were imprisoned in Dilhi. Ahmad Chap [the Lucknow 

 Edition of Firishtah reads Mdbib'], and Alghu Mugbul were sent to Gwaliar.' 



f So also the Ed. Bibl. Indica. Badaoni and Firishtah have 698. The 

 leader of the Moghuls is called ^<}J£». (Badaoni, Ed. B. I.), ^tiXo (Lucknow 

 Badaoni), and Dawa Khan, ruler of Mawaralnahr, by Firishtah (Lucknow Ed.) 

 who adds that he came with nearly 100,000 Mughuls. They were heathens. 

 The place of the battle is called Jarimanjur (Major Fuller), dar hudild i Jdran 

 Ma ,i jink (both editions of Badaoni), dar hudiid i Ldhur (Firishtah, Lucknow 

 Ed ), and dar hudud i Jdlindhar (Ed. Bibl. Indica). 



Badaoni seems to have carelessly copied, as a Mughul ^^JXa. is mentioned 

 below. He has left out the attack on Siwistan. 



