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who had been made General of the Forces. But Sultan Muham¬ 
mad, son of the lord of Tran and Turan, ceased not to travel 
through the night, and on the next day arrived at Sarsuti, and 
the horsemen who pursued him were unable to overtake him, and 
returned whence they had come, discomfited. While Sultan Mu¬ 
hammad was still on his way to Sarsuti, his father, Ghazi Malik 
Sultan Ghiasuddin Tughluq Shah, had sent Muhammad Sartabah, 
with two hundred horsemen, from Deobalpur to Sarsuti, and had 
seized upon the Fort at that place. So, passing through Sarsuti, 
Sultan Muhammad came in safety to his father at Deobalpur ; and 
his father rejoiced greatly, and gave thanks to God, because his 
son had been restored to him; and he ordered that they should 
give alms, and beat the drums in token of rejoicing. 
Then Ghazi Malik determined that he would take vengeance on the 
Parwaris and the Hindus, because they had slain his master, and he 
began to prepare an host with which he should destroy the Parwaris. 
But the rebel Khusrau Khan, who, by the aid of the Parwaris, 
had given to himself the title of Sultan Nagiruddin, appointed his 
renegade brother and Yusuf fuff to the command of an army, 
with elephants and treasure. And to one he gave the title of 
KhanKlianan, and the other he named Cuff Khan. And he 
ordered them to proceed from Delhi in the direction of Deo¬ 
balpur, and to oppose Ghazi Malik, and give battle to him. 
Also to his brother he gave the royal insignia. So those 
two Captains without experience set out from Delhi with their 
treasure and their elephants, like to chicken who, breaking the egg 
and creeping from under their mother’s wing, at once essay to fly; 
and because they were presumptuous beyond measure, and igno¬ 
rant beyond belief, they delayed not to hurry to encounter Ghazi 
Malik, and to seek out him who was a captain among captains, and 
exceeding terrible; from the stroke of whose sword, Khurasan 
and Mughulistan still reeled. Now fuff Khan, the renegade, be¬ 
fore that he had started, went and stood before the men of God 
and such as had withdrawn themselves from the world, and com¬ 
manded of them that they should offer up prayers and supplication 
on his behalf. But those just men, in the presence of fuff Klian 
and of his followers, and also after their departure, ceased not by 
