20 Translations from the Tdrikh i Firtiz Shdhi. [No. 1, 



Malik Jhujhii, Jagirdar [muqta''] of Karah, the nephew (brother's son) 

 of Nucrat Khan, together with all the xlmirs of Hindustan, had been 

 dispatched to Arangul ; but by the time they arrived there, the rains 

 had begun to descend from the sky, and the season became most un- 

 propitious, so that the army of Hindustan could effect nothing at 

 Arangul, and ultimately returned about the beginning of the cold 

 weather, totally disorganized, and with all its stores and equipments 

 lost and ruined. 



It was during this very year, when Sultan 'Alauddin had returned 

 to Dihli after the capture of Chitor, and the army that had started 

 along with him, had lost all its stores and equipments during the rainy 

 season, and a month had not elapsed since the time of the Sultan's 

 return, so that the soldiery had not yet been mustered, nor their 

 kits renewed, that the invasion of the Mughuls took place, and the 

 accursed Turghi, advancing swiftly with 40,000 horsemen, encamped 

 on the banks of the river Jamnah, and blockaded the roads of ingress 

 and egress of the city. 



A strange incident was this that befel the soldiery during this year ; 

 for Sultan 'Alauddin, after returning from the capture of Chitor, had 

 not sufficient time to provide the army with horses and arms after the 

 loss of equipments they had sustained at Chitor, and Malik Fakhr- 

 uddin Jiina, the Dadbak, having returned with the army of Hindustan 

 broken and disorganized from Arangul into the provinces, not a horse- 

 man or footman out of it could force his way into the city, on account 

 of the blockade kept up by the Mughuls on all the roads, and the 

 piquets they had stationed. In Multan, Samanah, and Deopalpur, 

 moreover, there was no force of sufficient strength to overthrow the 

 Mughul army, and join the Sultan's camp [at Siri]. The army of 

 Hindustan was summoned to advance, but in consequence of the hostile 

 presence of the Mughuls, they remained at Kol and Baran. [The 

 Mughuls moreover had occupied all fords (of the Jamnah)]. 



Sultan 'Alauddin, therefore, with the few horsemen that he had at the 

 Capital, came out of the city, and fixing his head quarters at Siri, 

 pitched his camp there. The Sultan was then under the necessity of 

 having a trench dug round the camp, and palisades, formed of the 

 planks of house doors, erected along side the trench, whereby he pre_ 

 vented the Mughuls from forcing an entrance into the camp. He 



