1870.] Translations from the Tar'ikh i Firuz Shuhi. 41 



was brought in. 'Ali Beg and Tartak and several others, with ropes 

 on their necks, were taken before 'Alauddin, who had given orders for 

 a splendid darbar to be held in the Chautarah i Subhani, from which 

 place as far as Indarpat the army stood drawn up in two lines. The 

 crowds that were present were so great, that on that day people gladly 

 paid twenty jetals, and half a tankah, for a goglet of water. 'Ali Beg 

 and Tartak, together with the other captives and the spoils, were 

 brought to this Darbar and marched past the throne, and all the captives 

 were trampled to death by elephants in this very Darbar, and torrents 

 of blood flowed along.] 



[On another occasion, in another year, the army of Islam engaged the 

 Mughuls under Grung (?) the accursed, at Khekar (on the Gr'haggar ? 

 vide p. 45, 1. 12,) and Grod again gave the Musalmans the victory, and 

 Grung, the accursed, was captured alive, taken before the Sultan, and 

 trampled to death by elephants. On this occasion also, a great number 

 of Mughuls were killed, both on the battle field and in the town, and of 

 their heads a tower was raised before the Badaon gate, at which tower 

 people look at to the present day and think of Sultan 'Alauddin.] 



[In the following year, three or four commanders of tumdns fell 

 blindly with thirty, forty thousand Mughuls over the districts in the 

 Sawalik Hills, plundering and carrying off spoil. 'Alauddin sent an 

 army against them, and ordered it to occupy the roads by which the 

 Mughuls would return, and to encamp on the banks of rivers, in order to 

 chastise them on their return, when want of water would bring them to 

 the rivers.] The army of Islam seized the roads by which the Mughuls 

 would have to return, and bivouacked on the banks of the river. By 

 the will of the Almighty, it chanced that the Mughuls having overrun 

 the Sawaliks, and performed a long journey from thence, arrived at the 

 river bank with their horses and themselves both parched with thirst, 

 and disordered. The army of Islam, who had been looking out for 

 their arrival for several days, thus gained a most advantageous oppor- 

 tunity over them ; and the Mughuls putting their ten fingers into their 

 mouths, begged for water of the army of Islam, and the whole of them, 

 together with their wives and children, fell into the hands of the latter. 

 A glorious victory accordingly fell to the lot of the army of Islam, 

 who carried several thousands of the Mughuls as prisoners to the fort 

 of Narainah, and conveyed their wives and children to Dihli, where 

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