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ruled from 618 H. for a few months, when his elder brother, Rukn-ud- 
Din Mahmud, who had been kept in confinement by his father for some 
time, on account of his misconduct and cruel disposition (see p. 198), was 
set at liberty by the above-mentioned heretics, defeated Nusrat-ud-Din 
Muhammad in battle, and assumed the sovereignty over Nimroz or 
Sijistan. 
16. Malik RUKN-UD-DfN Mahmud, son of Bahrain Shah from 
618 H. His cruelty and tyranny was such that the people recalled his 
brother, the Amir, Nusrat-ud-Din Muhammad; and while the brothers 
were contending, an army of Mu gh al infidels, suddenly aud unexpectedly 
reached Sijistan, and appeared before the capital, which was taken, its 
people butchered, the city desolated, and the country depopulated. This 
is one of the reasons why the author of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri “ uses very 
strong language indeed” against the Mughals. In the massacre above 
referred to the two brothers perished. After the Mu gh als disappeared 
from the country, a son of Malik Nasir-ud-Din, ’Usman (No. 13), 
brother of Bahrain Shah, named Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud, who had been 
in concealment, came forth, and assumed authority. 
17. Malik Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud-i-Harab. He did not acquire 
much power; for the country was in a state of desolation, and the people 
few. The Mulahidah heretics induced Shall ’Usman, a grandson of 
Nasir-ud-Din, ’Usman (No. 13), to come from Neh and occupy Sijistan. 
He asked for aid from the Malik of Kirman the governor on the part of 
the Khwarazm Shah, Burak, the chamberlain, a Kara Khita-i-Musal- 
man, the same who afterwards murdered his sovereign, and sent his head 
to the Mughals, whose feudatory he became ; and he was the founder of 
the Kara-Khita-i dynasty of Kirman. The Khwarazmi forces having 
arrived from Kirman and joined ’Usman, Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud was 
martyred, and his brother, the Amir, ’Ali, the Zahid or Recluse was set 
up, but his government acquired no stability, and he died. He is not 
accounted among the rulers of Sijistan or Nimroz ; and with these the 
dynasty of the Safiarians terminated. 
18. Malik Taj-ud-Din, Binal-Tigin, the KhwARAZMf. He was 
the commander of the troops sent from Kirman, and was of the family of 
Khwarazm Shah. He took possession of the territory for himself in 
622 H., or the following year. In the year 625 H., an army of Mu gh als 
again entered the territory of Nimroz, and invested Taj-ud-Din Binal- 
Tigin, within the fortress of Uk of SijistanA He defended it for nine¬ 
teen months ; but one day, in going round the walls, received an arrow 
from the Mughals in one of his eyes; and, subsequently, by accident, fell 
from the battlements to the ground, and was taken prisoner.! The 
# See “ Translation,” p. 1120. 
t Ibid, pp. 1125, 1126. 
