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governor of that part, the Muhtashim, Shams-ud-Din. Our author was 
accompanied by the son of Malik Rukn-ud-Din Muhammad whose name 
is not mentioned, but, in all probability, it was the identical Shams-ud-Din, 
Muhammad, the founder of the Kurat dynasty. Our author succeeded 
in effecting an accommodation, but it does not appear to have been 
on terms acceptable to Malik Taj-ud-Din Binal-Tigin; for he wished 
him to return to the Muhtashim’s presence and declare war again. This 
he declined to do, as he had several times put off his journey into Hind, 
and was now desirous of departing without further delay, and before 
the Mughals should again appear. Malik Taj-ud-Din Binal Tigin was 
wroth at this refusal, and shut him up within the walls of the fortress 
of Safhed of Sijistan. There he was detained for a period of forty-three 
days, but, Malik Rukn-ud-Din Muhammad having interfered in his behalf, 
he was set at liberty. 
He did not allow the grass to grow under his feet after this ; and in 
the fifth month of the following } r ear—Jamadi-ul-Awwal, 624 H., [in 
another place he says it was Rajah, the seventh month, while in another 
place—page 612—he says it was in 625 H.], by way of Ghaznin and 
Banian, he reached U'chchah by boat ; and, in the following Zi-Hijjah, 
Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Kaba-jah, ruler of U'chchah and Multan, placed him 
in charge of the Firuzi College at U'chchah, and made him Kazi of the 
forces of his son, ’Ala-ud-Din Bahrain Shah. 
Our author could distinguish the winning side, and preferred it; for, 
no sooner had Sultan Shams-ud-Din I-yal-timish, ruler of Dihli, Kaba- 
jah’s rival, appeared before U'chchah, than he deserted Kaba-jah and the 
Firuzi College, and went over to his rival. In the first place, our author 
presented himself before Malik Taj*ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajz-lak Khan, who 
was in command of the van of I-yal-timish’s forces; and, a few days after, 
I-yal-timish himself having arrived, he waited on him. He was favourably 
received, and was appointed to officiate, in his priestly capacity, within 
that Sultan’s camp. After the fall of U'chchah, he accompanied I-yal- 
timish to Dihli; and reached it in Ramazan, 625 II. 
He subsequently accompanied the Sultan, in his priestly capacity, to 
Gwaliyur in 629 H. ; and, in the following year, after that stronghold was 
taken possession of, was made Kazi Khatib, and Imam of Gwaliyur and 
its dependencies, under the governor, Rashid-ud-Din ’AIL In the early 
part of Sultan Eaziyyat’s reign he returned to Dihli, but he was not re¬ 
moved from office, neither was he a <£ forgiven rebel and, during his 
absence from Gwaliyur, his Deputies acted for him. On reaching the 
capital, in 635 H., that sovereign added to his offices that of Superinten¬ 
dent of the Nasiriah College at Dihli. 
* See Translation, page 1285, and Thomas’s “ Pathdn Kings of Dehli,” page 105. 
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