40 Translations from the Tdrikh i Firliz Shrihi. [No. 1, 



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

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

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

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

 the Sultan also, the prices of horses and the brand (ddgh) 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 (chautarahj, 

 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 Duaspah would bring in ten 

 Mughuls with ropes on their necks, or a single 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 Atubak(?), the master of horse. He attacked 

 them in the confines of Amrohah, and God 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) ; ^J— >$*> y 

 according to Fullers MS., is a mistake for ^ji* • I- 21, insert aj after e ^ r » j 

 and write -j (^ for _j^. P. 321, I. 9, dele j after ^IjfS which, like j^cUj 

 has the Itdfat ; I. 16, Om»[^st ^ is very doubtful for Sl^sr^ j for &&udj] 

 read s<>a£u<>J| • I. 18, L^ is absurd. P. 325, I. 5, read a.jf for <*xf j I. 10, 

 vez&Jai jJaLo for^Jai only ; I. 11, read Js&e j I. 12, read Oof ; I. 13, read 

 •JUtijti/o nvuttfaddiyaTi for *.j**£/0, or dj j>£*x> mu'iad bihi (many) ; I 22. dele the 

 3 before jLfla. where the apodosis commences, 



