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sions, came as envoys to the Courts of the Sultans of Ghur and Ghaznin 
to demand aid from those monarchs against Sultan Takish. In conse¬ 
quence, the Imam Shams-ud-Din, the Turk, and the Maulana Saraj-ud- 
Din Muhammad, the Tajzik, our author’s father, were directed to proceed 
to Baghdad, to the Khalifah’s Court, along with the envoys.* They set 
out for Baghdad by way of Mukran ; and, in some affray into which they 
fell on the road, they were attacked by a band of robbers, and our author’s 
father was killed. Intimation of his death was received in a communica¬ 
tion from the Khalifah to the Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Muhammad-i-Sam, 
in these words : “ Furthermore, Saraj-i-Minhaj perished in an affray on 
the road. The Almighty recompense him !” 
Another of our author’s relatives, his mother’s brother’s son, was 
Ziya-ud-Din Muhammad, son of ’Abd-us-Sallam, Kazi of Tulak, who was 
left in command of the fortress of Tabarhindah, with a force of 1200 
Tulakis, by the Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din Muhammad-i-Sam, when that 
Sultan was about to retire from Hind before the hot season of 587 H , 
intending to return after it was over and relieve him. The Kazi of Tulak 
was to hold the place for seven months; but as the Sultan, just after this 
arrangement was made, was defeated by Pae Pithora and severely wound¬ 
ed in the battle, and an expedition into Khurasan soon after intervened, 
he was totally unable to come to the Kazi’s relief, as agreed upon, in the 
following season, and, consequently, after having held out over thirteen 
months, the Kazi Ziya ud-Din Muhammad had to capitulate. 
At the time Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Mahmud, son of Ghiyas-ud-Din 
Muhammad-i-Sam, was assassinated by the Khwarazmi refugees, in Safar, 
607 H., our author was dwelling at Firuz-koh, and was then in his 
eighteenth year. 
In 611 H., the year preceding the surrender of his capital Firuz-koh, 
by the last of the Sultans of the Ghuri dynasty, our author proceeded 
thither. Two years after we find him in Sijistan, at Zaranj, the capital, 
where he remained some time. At this period the whole of the territories 
which had formed the empire of the Ghuris, including the dominions of 
Ghaznin, and extending east of the Indus into the upper part of the Sind- 
Sagar Do-abah of the Panj-ab as far as the Jhilam, had fallen under the 
* He was despatched on this mission by Ghiyas-ud-Dm Muhammad-i-Sam, Sul¬ 
tan of Ghur, the elder brother and suzerain of Mu’izz-ud-Din Muhammad, Sultan of 
Ghaznin. The latter is mentioned in a paper in this Journal, Part I., No. 1, for 
1880, page 28, by Mr. C. R. Stiipnagel, who, is at a loss to know why the elder brother’s 
name appears on his younger brother’s coins, and informs us that “of Sultan Ghias-ud- 
din scarcely anything is known.” Some in formation respecting him will be found in the 
Translation of the author’s History, and in note 5 , page 472, and 2 , page 489. See also 
Part I., No. II., page 84, of the “Journal.” 
