222 Translations from the Tarikh i Firuzshaht . ["No. 3, 
Then the two armies drew up on the plain of Lahrawat, and made 
ready the battle ; and when the vanguards met, the vanguard of 
Ghazi Malik prevailed against the enemy, and Malik Talbaghah 
Nagori, who was among the most faithful of the followers of 
Khusrau Khan, and for the sake of Khusrau Khan had drawn his 
sword against the army of Islam, was defeated, he and others of 
the Parwaris: and his head was brought and laid before Gliazi 
Malik. Then the son of Qurrali Qimar, who also was called Shaistah 
Khan and was General of the Porces, seeing that the battle was 
against him, withdrew with his troops from the army of Khusrau 
Khan, and went in the direction of the Desert. And coming 
in his way to Indpat, he fell upon the baggage of the army of 
Gliazi Malik, and, having plundered it, continued his flight. But the 
two armies fought until the hour of afternoon prayer. Then it hap¬ 
pened that after the hour of afternoon prayer, which on Friday is an 
hour of great holiness and very sacred, Ghazi Malik gathered round 
him his followers and companions and chiefs, men of might and 
valour, and fell upon the centre of the army of Khusrau Khan. But 
Khusrau Khan, being weak as is a woman, could not bear up against 
the attack of mighty men of war, and straightway fled : and his army 
was scattered, and his soldiers discomfited. And he, leaving behind 
him his men at arms and his allies, the Parwaris, fled alone in 
the direction of Indpat, and there was no man to accompany him. 
Then the royal insignia were brought to Ghazi Malik, who returned 
in triumph to his camp, and darkness fell; and a watch of the night 
had passed before that he arrived at his encampment at Indpat. 
Now when Khusrau Khan arrived at Indpat, none of the Par¬ 
waris or his other followers remained to him. Therefore, re¬ 
turning from Indpat, he fled to the garden in which Malik 
Sliadi ’Alai, who also had been formerly his benefactor, lies buried ; 
and there he concealed himself that night. And after that Khusrau 
Khan had fled and his army had been routed, the Hindus and the 
Parwaris dispersed and disbanded themselves, every man to his 
own : and they were slain by the enemy in the country, the bazars, 
the streets, and in the quarters of the city, and their horses and arms 
were taken from them. Others also fled from the city by twos and 
by fours in the direction of Gujrat, and were slain on the road 
