244 Translations from the Tdrilch i FiruzshaM. [No. 3, 
days, by arrows shot through tubes and by catapults, he forced an 
opening into the outer and inner fort, and he took prisoner Saddar 
Deo, with his princes, his nobles, and headmen, their women, their 
children, their elephants, and their horses, and he sent news of his 
victory to Delhi. And in Delhi and Tughluqabad they spread cano¬ 
pies and made rejoicing, and caused the drums to be beaten nine 
times. But Saddar Deo was sent with his elephants, and his trea¬ 
sure, and his followers, by the hand of Malik Bedar, called also 
Qadar Khan, and Khwajah Lbaji, Lieutenant-General of the 
Forces, to the king, and to Arankal was given the name of Sultan- 
pur. Then Sultan Muhammad conquered the whole country of 
Taling, and divided it into provinces and governments, and ap¬ 
pointed officers and governors, and from the whole country of 
Taling took he one year’s revenue. From thence be marched to¬ 
wards Jajnagar, when he captured forty elephants, and returned 
with victory to Taling. But the elephants he sent to the king at 
Delhi. 
Departure of Sultan Ghiasuddin for Lak’hnauti, and his 
CONQUEST THERE, AND IN SuNNARGAON AND SATGAON, AND TnE SUB¬ 
MISSION of the Governors of Lak’hnauti. 
Now in the time that Arankal was taken, and the elephants 
arrived from Jajnagar, certain troops of the Mughul came 
within the limits of the kingdom, and the armies of Islam 
encountered them, and defeated them with great slaughter, and 
took prisoners their two leaders, and sent them to the Court. In 
those days was it that Sultan Ghiasuddin made Tughluqabad his 
capital, and caused his nobles and his chieftains to reside there 
with their families, and to establish themselves there. At that 
time also there came certain of the chief men. of Lak’hnauti, and 
stood in the presence of the king, and told him of the tyranny 
and exactions of the governors of Lak’hnauti, and informed him of 
their distress and of their sufferings, and of the complaints of all 
Musalmans, because of the injustice of those governors. So 
Sultan Ghiasuddin resolved within himself that he would march to 
Lak’hnauti, and he sent messengers to Sultan Muhammad, and 
bade him come from Arankal, and appointed him Regent in his 
