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fury of a tiger. Prodigies of valour were performed on 
both Tides, and for many hours the event was doubtful 
and wholly indecifive. At length, however, viftory de¬ 
clared for the fultan; the Moguls were every-where dif- 
comfited, and flew to the mountains for ftielter. 
The mortifying intelligence of a lecond defeat could 
fcarcely be fupported by Gengis ; who, in confequence, 
renewed the flege with tenfold fury; when, in the violence 
of this frelh aflault, an heroic youth, the fon of Oclai, be¬ 
ing {hot by an arrow, fell dead at his feet. Gengis, 
{hocked for the moment at feeing all the fair profpecls 
of his grandlon thus prematurely cut oft’, repreffed his 
own feelings to foothe thofe of the boy’s mother. But his fa- 
vage hofom burned with revenge. With promifes of a 
high reward, feconded by an immediate diftribution of 
gold andftlver, he animated the foldiers night and day to 
continue their operations, till the walls fell before him ; 
when he entered like a hungry lion to devour his prey. 
He gave up the city to the wife of Odtai, who had loft 
her beloved fon in the aflault; in retaliation for which 
the gave orders, and attended in perfon to fee them exe¬ 
cuted, that every man, woman, and child, and every liv¬ 
ing animal within its boundaries, ihould be inftantly maf- 
facred ; and lb rigidly were thefe orders put in force, that 
the bellies of pregnant women were ript open, and their 
infants deftroyed, that there might not efcape a remnant 
of this unfortunate race. Then followed the utter demo¬ 
lition of the whole place; fo that ever after, Bamian 
bore the name of Manbalig, which means, “ the unfortu¬ 
nate abode.” 
Gengis, impatient to check the fuccefsful progrefs of 
the arms of Geialeddin, immediately commenced his march 
for Gazna; and fo rapid were his movements, that he 
fcarcely allowed his foldiers time for refrelhment or re- 
pofe. When by forced marches he arrived before Gazna, 
be found that the Charazmian army had left the place, 
and had marched to the diftridls of the Panjab. Gengis 
alfo learnt, that the Turkilh auxiliaries had taken a dif¬ 
ferent route, and were leparated entirely from the fultan’s 
army. He was therefore determined to prevent their junc¬ 
tion, by detaching fixty thouland horfe to lecure the only 
paffages of the mountains by which it could be effected. 
It now remained for Geialeddin, with only thirty thou- 
fand men, to wage an unequal conteft with three hundred 
thoufand Moguls, under the immediate direction of fuch 
-a general as Gengis Khan. 
His conduc'd, however, proved him equal to all that 
could be effected by defperate valour on fo trying an oc- 
cafion. He chofe for his ftation, on the banks of the In¬ 
dus, a place where the nature of the country, mountain¬ 
ous and rocky, would prevent the enemy, conflfting chief¬ 
ly of cavalry, from bringing his force into aflion; and, 
• that no hope for fafety in flight might be indulged by the 
lefs valiant among his own troops, he contrived to fix 
upon a fpot where the ftream was rapid and impaflable. 
After thefe arrangements, hearing that the vanguard of 
the enemy had taken poll at a place not far from his camp, 
called Hardar, he refolutely mounted on horfeback, and, 
felefting feme of the braveft of his army, in the dead of 
night he marched to attack them ; which he did with his 
accuftomed vigour, and cut them nearly all in pieces, with¬ 
out the lofs of a man, and returned in fafety to his camp. 
But, foon as the morning dawn approached, Gengis drew 
up his army in order of battle, faying to his generals that 
they ftiould make tenfold reprilals. He gave to his fon 
2 agathai the command of his right wing; tp Oflai, that 
of his left; and referved the centre to liimfeif, furrounded 
with fix thoufand of his body-guard, all picked men, in¬ 
vincible in courage. On the other fide, Geialeddin, re- 
ferving alfo the centre for his own command, conferred 
that of the right on Amin Malek ; and to his vizier he 
.configned the left, drawn up under the fhelter of a moun¬ 
tain, which prevented the enemy’s right wing from charg¬ 
ing in a body. 
O S T A N. 
The action commenced with a furious attack by the no* 
ble Perfian, Amin Malek, on the left wing of the Moguls, 
which he forced to give way. The right wing alfo of 
Gengis, from its fituation before defcribed, being pent up 
and unable to-extend its front, afforded an opportunity 
tp Geialeddin to employ detachments of his left wing with 
aftonifliing fuccefs. At this inftant Gengis.Khan gave a 
Angular proof of his confummate generallhip. Obferving 
the difadvantage into which his left wing was thrown by 
the policy of Geialeddin, he ordered a chofen detachment 
of his cavalry to haften round the mountain which ferved 
his enemies for a bulwark, and thus fall upon their rear. 
His commands were executed with promptnefs. Between 
rugged rocks and dreadful precipices the Tartar cavalry 
made its way; and fell impetuoufly on the fultari’s rear, 
while Gengis affailed him in front. Geialeddin, however, 
who with only thirty thoufand men had now been en¬ 
gaged for ten hours in unequal combat with an army of 
three hundred thoufand of his enemies, difdained to give 
over the conflict. Though furrounded by Gengis, he had 
yet feven thoufand valiant men fighting by his fide ; and 
which they continued to do, dealing death around them, 
until they were hemmed in upon the banks of the Indus ; 
the Moguls now clofing round them in the form of a 
bow, of which the fultan’s remaining line formed the 
firing. Gengis, determined if poflible to take Gelaled- 
din alive, forbade his foldiers to aim any deftruflive wea¬ 
pon at him. But the heroic prince, throwing off his hea¬ 
vier armour, and mounting a frelh horfe, relblutely fpurred 
him into the Indus; where urging him on, the noble ani¬ 
mal lafely fwam acrofs with his mailer. Gengis, inform¬ 
ed of this intrepid meafure, hurried down to the river - 
fide, where great indeed was his aftonilhment, when, re- 
gardlefs of his own fafety, he faw him turn his horle in 
the midll of the waves to infult him, and difcharge at him 
his -whole quiver of arrows. Several indignant Mogul 
captains offered to plunge after him ; but Gengis would 
not permit them, expreifing the highefl admiration- of his 
conduct and valour; faying “ happy would be the fon who 
could boajl of fuch a father l" 
When fafe arrived on the op <ofite fhore, Geialeddin was 
joined by many of his officers and foldiers, who had forded 
the river higher up ; and, their numbers continually in- 
creafing, he found liimfeif again at the head of a formida¬ 
ble body of men, firmly attached to his interefts, and ready 
to brave every danger in his fervice. With thefe he’is 
Arid to have eftablilhed liimfeif at Moultan, and to have 
remained there till the year 1224; when the rajahs of the 
country, jealous of his increafing power, marched againft 
him with their united ftrength, and compelled him to re- 
crofs the Indus. He afterwards recovered a confiderable 
part of his patrimonial dominions, and beat the Mogul 
armies in the field; but was at length infamoufly betray¬ 
ed and murdered, A. D. 1231, in the province of Curdif- 
tan. With hixn the line of Charazmian fovereigns be¬ 
came extindl. The Perfian and hereditary domains of that 
dynally continued in the poffeilion of the fucceffors of 
Gengis, and thole of India in the family of Cuttub. 
Gengis Khan, though he beheld with admiration the 
undaunted coqrage of Geialeddin, was yet bafe enough to 
put to death, in cold blood, all the males of the family of 
that unfortunate prince. He wintered his army on the 
frontiers of India; and was on the point of extending his 
conquefts through that region, when the unwelcome news 
reached his camp, that, in coulequence of his long ab- 
fence, the Chinefe were on the point of throwing off his 
fupremacy; and that the khan of Tangut had actually 
done fo. In the fpring, therefore, of 1222, he marched 
back to Candahar, which fortrefs he retook with little 
trouble ; and thence very large detachments were dif- 
patched into Iran, to take vengeance on Gazna and tire 
other cities that had favoured the caufe of Geialeddin. In 
1223, he iffued orders for an alfembly of all the princes 
and generals of his vaft empire, to be held at Toncat, a 
