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the head of the Sultan’s forces. They managed, however, to give him 
the slip when within ten huroh of them ; for, having fellow traitors 
within the walls of the capital, who offered to open the gates to them, 
they made a forced march of one hundred huroh in the space of two days 
and a half, and reached it on the evening of the Thursday. The Ulu gh 
Khan-i-A’zam had, in the meantime, received intimation of these doings, 
and he set out in pursuit of them. In the interim the traitors within 
had been secured; and Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balkan, and his confederates 
found the walls manned and gates closed ready for a vigorous defence 
when they perambulated the place on the evening in question. On the 
Friday morning, the Sultan’s forces under the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam 
having appeared upon the scene, the insurgents took to flight; and Malik 
’Izz-ud-Din, Balban, being deserted by the troops of Uchehh and Multan 
in their precipitate flight, was left with only about 200 or 300 followers. 
He, however, succeeded in effecting his escape. This was in Jamadi-ul- 
Akhir of the year above mentioned (July, 1257 A. D.). 
At this time, the Nu-m Sail or Salin or Sari, having entered the 
territory east of the Ab-i-Sind or Indus, reached Uchehh, and Malik 
’Izz-ud-Din, Balban, had to join his camp. After this the Mughal leader 
despatched the Kurat Malik, Shams-ud-Din, Muhammad, who had to 
accompany him on this expedition whether he liked it or not, to occupy 
Multan; 66 and the Shaikh of Shaikhs. Baha-ul-Hakk wa-d-Din, Zakariya, 
who appears, in the absence of a settled government, to have been the 
chief authority there, or, at least, the person possessing the most in¬ 
fluence, had to pay down 100,000 dinars to save the place from being 
sacked. The fortifications are said to have been dismantled by Sail’s 
command, and a Turk mamluk or slave of Malik Shams-ud-Din, Muham¬ 
mad, the Tajzik Kurat feudatory of Hirat and Ghur, Ohingiz Khan, by 
name, was made Hakim of Multan. 67 
Both Malik Sher Khan-i-Sunkar, and Malik Jalal-ud-Diu, Mas’ud 
Shah, brother of Sultan Kasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shall, ruler of Dihli, 
55 Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban, was probably ashamed to accompany those infidels 
thither to the presence of the Shaikh, therefore, the Tajzik Kurat Malik of Hirat 
and Ghur was made the means of communication. 
67 I hope this Chingiz Khan will not be mistaken by the archaeological experts 
for Timur-chi, the Mughal, the Chingiz or Great Khan, because history states that he 
did not coin money ; while the coins, if they may be so called, of his immediate suc¬ 
cessors were balishts or ingots. Many of those petty Musalman rulers, who were 
reduced to vassalage by the Mu gh als. like Malik Hasan, the Karlugh, and Shams-ud- 
Din, Muhammad, the Kurat, had to put the names of these “ infidels ” on their coins . 
See Thomas’s “ Pathan Kings of Dehli,” pages 91—98. Neither Hasan, nor his son, 
Nasir-ud-Din, Muhammad were very” powerful monarclis.” See also “ Tabakat-i- 
Nasiri,” Translation, pages 781, 859 — 863, and 1128—1132 for an account of them. 
