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Translations from the Tctrihh i Firuzshahi. 
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who had set up themselves as generals and as leaders, and had 
given battle to men of power and to tried captains, and had caused 
the death of many, leaving behind them their treasure, and forget¬ 
ting their honour, fled in great haste, so that the dust of their feet 
was not visible to the pursuer, and hastening to travel through the 
night, arrived before Khusrau Khan, covered with shame and dis¬ 
grace. And because of their defeat and of the victory of Ghazi 
Malik, Khusrau Khan and his followers were discomfited, and the 
Parwaris lost heart, and the faces of all those rebellious ones 
grew pale, and their lips dry ; for the Parwaris and Hindus, who 
were the allies of Khusrau Khan, saw that they could not prevail 
against Ghazi Malik. 
But Ghazi Malik remained for seven da} T s after his victory 
upon the field of battle, and collected much spoil, and gather¬ 
ed together his host, and advanced in great power and with 
a well appointed army to take vengeance upon the rebel, and 
destroy the infidel in Delhi. Then was Khusrau Khan much trou¬ 
bled in mind, and called to him his luckless nobles, and the Hin¬ 
dus and Parwaris, his allies, and came out of the city and en¬ 
camped upon the ’Alai Hauz, so that before him there were 
groves of trees and gardens, and behind him the castle of Delhi ; 
and he alighted by Lahrawat, and from fear of Ghazi Malik, 
he entrenched himself on all four sides. Also he brought with him 
all the treasure from Kilok’liari, and from Delhi. And because he 
saw that the hour of his discomfiture had come, and that he had 
lost his stake, he dispersed all his treasure, and destroyed all the 
records of accounts : and because he knew that his kingdom and his 
glory, his power and his life, were passing away from him in shame 
and in disgrace, he left nothing behind in his treasury, but scatter¬ 
ed everything. Some of his treasure he gave as two and one half 
year’s pay, and some as a free gift, to his soldiers; and being pur¬ 
posed that not a coin should fall into the hands of the leader of the 
faithful, he left nothing in his treasure chest. Perplexed and with¬ 
out counsel, he rode out daily before his army, and called to him 
his chieftains and his leaders, and addressed them with flattery 
and caresses, and took no thought of his followers. But it was 
known to all the soldiers, that because of the advance of Ghazi 
