42 Translations from the Tdr'ikh i Firdz Shahi. [No. 1, 



they were sold in the [slave] market, like the slave boys and girls of 

 Hindustan. Malik Khac, the Hajib, was deputed from the throne to 

 proceed to Narainah, and on his arrival there, the whole of the Mughuls 

 were put relentlessly to the sword, and their polluted blood began to 

 flow in torrents. 



Next year Iqbalmandah headed an invasion with a large body of 

 Mughuls, and Sultan 'Alauddin despatched an army to repel them. 

 On this occasion also the army of Islam joined battle with the Dard- 

 mandah force of Amir Ali [?]* and gained the victory over them. 

 Iqbalmandah himself was slain, and some thousands of the Mughuls 

 fell a prey to the sword. Such of the Mughul Amirs as were [com- 

 manders of one thousand or one hundred] and were taken prisoners 

 alive, were conveyed to Dihli, and there trampled under foot by 

 elephants. 



After this victory, in which Iqbalmandah was slain, and not one of 

 the Mughuls managed to return alive, they conceived such a dread 

 and terror of the army of Islam, that the desire of invading Hindu- 

 stan was altogether erased from their hearts; and until the clou <<i 

 the Qutbi reign, the Mughuls never again allowed the name of Hindu- 

 stan to escape from their mouths, nor did they wander about the 

 frontiers. Through fear of the army of Islam, in fact, they could not 

 enjoy a satisfactory sleep ; for during sleep even they used to see the 

 swords of their adversaries hanging over their heads. 



The incursions of the Mughuls were thus totally removed from 

 Dihli, and its adjoining districts, and perfect peace and security pre- 

 vailed throughout the country, so that the inhabitants of those quar- 

 ters which were usually invaded by the Mughuls, engaged to their 

 hearts' content in farming and agriculture. 



Sultan Tughluq Shah, who in those days was called Ghazi Malik, 

 acquired a great name and reputation in Khurasan and Hindustan, 

 and became, until the close of the Qutbi reign, the great bulwark 

 against the advance of the Mughuls in [his] districts of Deopalpur, and 



* So Major Fuller. The Ed. JBibl. Indica (p. 322, 1,9) has joined battle at 



a place called ^&1j u^ s 'j J ? \ I «*£**, which has no sense. If Badaoni is correct, 



tvc might expect a phrase to avenge the death of Amir 'Alt Beg. My MS. of the 



Tabaqat, however, has at ^^fj ■ J^rJ/ ! Bi^ido. Dihandah (Bad. I, p. 274, i.l.) 



was the name of a river near Ajodhan (Patan i Panjab). S. W. of Deopalpur, 

 Ghazi Malik's aqtd'. 



