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wounds with their knives and daggers. Subsequently Muayyidul 
Mulk, the Yazir of the Sultan, captured some of the assassins and 
had them put to death.* 
XI. 
Mang Klia'n. 
(A. D. 1220, A. IT. 617.) 
Mughul irruptions. When the Sultan of Khwarazm was pursued 
into India by the Mughuls under Chingiz Khan, he deputed mes¬ 
sengers on reaching the vicinity of Dihli to king Shamsuddin 
Altamsh, to communicate his arrival, and to prefer a request to 
reside temporarily in some village near Dihli. The king after 
mature reflection deputed a messenger on his part with presents 
to the Sultan, but objected to comply with his demand for a place 
of residence on the ground that the climate of India would not 
suit the constitution of the Sultan. On receiving this reply, the 
Sultan returned to Belala and Nekala. Those who had effected 
their escape joined him, and he had now about ten thousand men 
under him. He deputed Tajuddin Malik Khilji, accompanied by 
a force, to Pai Gakk’har in the hills of Judh, with a request for 
the hand of his daughter. This request Pai Gakk’har complied 
with, and sent his son with a number of troops to wait upon the 
Sultan, who gave the name of Qutlugh Khan to the son, and sent 
an army under the command of Uzbak Pai against Na^iruddm 
Qubajali, who was at enmity with Pai Gakk’har.f 
In the month of Pajab, A. H. 644, Napir ibn i Mahmud took 
the held, and proceeded towards the mountains of Judh and the 
provinces on the Indus. These countries were reduced, and the king 
took revenge on the Gakk’hars for the continued incursions and for 
having led the Mughuls through their country into Hindustan. 
Deeming these offences too great to be pardoned, he carried several 
thousand Gakk’hars of all ages and of each sex into captivity. J 
During the reign of Sultanah Paziah Begum, Malik Altuniah, 
having espoused the empress, raised an army composed of Gakk’hars, 
Jats, and other neighbouring tribes, with which he opposed the 
forces of Bahram, but was defeated. 
* Firishtah, page 105. 
f The Jami’ut-tawankh (Elliot’s Muhammadan Historians, page 26.) 
j Firishtah, page 134. 
