46 Translations from the Tdrikli i Firuz Shdhi. [No. 1, 



1 The third time Turghi Mughul, who belonged to the markandn (?), 

 i. e., unerring archers, of his country, came with a lot of foot soldiers, 

 and 20,000 intrepid and renowned horsemen, occupied the foot of the 

 hills and the districts lying there, and advanced as far as Baran, whose 

 governor Malik Fakhruddin, the Mir Dad, shut himself up in the Fort. 

 Malik Tughluq* was sent to his relief from the capital, when Malik 

 Fakhruddin left the Fort and effected a junction with Malik Tughluq. 

 Both fell upon the Mughuls at night, defeated them, and captured 

 Turghi, who was taken by Tughluq to Dihli.' 



* The fourth time, Muhammad Taryaq (?, Tartaq ?, Tarq.iq?) and 

 'AH Beg, who were princes royal of Khurasan, advanced with a large 

 army, one corps of which plundered Nagor, and the other occupied the 

 Sirmiir mountains as far as the Bayah, or Kali, river. Sultan 'Aland- 

 din sent his slave Malik Manik (?), who is the same as Kamr Naib Bazar 

 Dinari, and Malik Tughluq, governor of Dipalpur, towards Amrohah; 

 and when the Mughuls with their cattle and spoils arrived at the 

 Rahab, Malik Manik fell over them from the rear. A great battle 

 ensued ; both princes fought bravely, but were at last captured and 

 executed. Most of these accursed invaders were killed, and those that 

 escaped fled in a wretched condition to their country. The heads of 

 the two leaders were fixed on the battlements of the Fort at Badaon. 

 The following Ruba'i was composed by a poet of that time, ami may 

 now be seen inscribed on the southern gate of that town (Badaon) — 



Fort, may God's protection be thy friend, 



And may the conquests aud the victories of the Shah be thy standard ! 



The present King has built thee up again, 



May Turghi also, like 'Ali Beg,f be thy prisoner.' 



' And Mir Khusrau also has described the war of Malik Manik, who 

 had now received the title of Malik Naib, in his history entitled 

 Khazdinulfutuh, the language of which is a miracle and exceeds human 

 power, though, in fact, every thing written by this Prince of poets, is of 

 the same kind, so that it would be idle and wrong to make distinc- 

 tions and preferring one poem to another.' 



' The fifth time Iqbalmandah and Kapak (?) collected an army of 



* The Ed. Bibl. Indica, p. 185, 1. 9, has wrong Malik Tughluq and Ghazi Malik. 

 It is one and the same man. 



f The text has wrong 'Aid Beg. Besides, did Tughluq release Turghi, whom 

 he had captured in the third Expedition ? 



