And after having the khubah read and the currency struck in his name,* having collected a large body of men, under the command of Amír Alí Masíj* (Mích) he attempted to conquer the countries of Tibet and Turkestán and twelve thousand cavalry fully armed and equipped arrived at a city which they call Bardhan.* A river here crossed their route called the Brahmanputr,* which they also call Brahmkadí. It is three or four times the size of the Ganges. Sháh Garshasp* when he came to Hindustán built a bridge over that river, and crossed it at Kámrúd and went on his way. Muḥam-mad ^59. Bakhtyár crossed by that bridge, and leaving certain of his trusted generals to protect the bridge and command the road, entered the territory of Tibet, and spent ten days among the mountains and difficult roads, and at last arrived at a plain in which was a fort of great strength: the garrison of that fort who were descendants of Gushtasp (that fort too was one of the build­ings crected by Gushtasp) came forth to fight, and fought so bravely till nightfall that many men were lost on the side of Muḥammad Bakhtyár. He pitched his camp on that very spot, and coming down received tidings that five farsangs beyond this city there was another city* from which 50,000 Turks all warlike and ready for battle would come to the relief of their city. The following day Muḥammad Bakhtyár not thinking it advisable to remain there, and not being able to oppose them, turned back and came to the head of the bridge. Before his arrival the Generals in charge of the road had fought among themselves, and the infidels had broken two arches of that bridge. The army of Muḥammad Bakhtyár had this bridge in front and the infidels kept coming up in their rear, and fought with determined bravery. In that neighbourhood there was an idol temple of great strength.* They passed the night there by some stratagem, and in the morning a ford was found, and a party of men who crossed by the ford found the sand of the river was a sort of quicksand, and the water of the river gradually growing deeper and deeper, the greater part of the soldiers of Muḥammad Bakhtyár were drowned in the ocean of destruction, and the remnant which re­mained became fuel for the fire of the infidel's sword and attained the exaltation of martyrdom. Muḥammad Bakhtyár, out of many thousand men, arrived at Deo Kot with some three or four hun­dred only, and fell ill from vexation and was attacked by hectic fever* and used to say “no doubt Sulan Muḥammad Muizz-ud-Din Sám has met with an accident that fortune has gone so against me.” And when weakness took possession of him ‘Alí Mardán one of Muḥammad Bakhtyár's greatest generals arrived ^60. at Deo Kot from the district of Nárnálí* and finding him bedridden, pulled down the sheet from his face and ruthlessly des­patched him with one blow of a dagger. This event happened in the year 602 H. after the death of Sulán Muizzu-d-Dín: and after the death of Sulán Qubu-d-Dín this same Alí Mardán eventually seized the reins of power by great craft, and promulgating the khutba and sikka of Lakhnauti in his own name was styled Sulán Aláu-d-Dín, and from the excessive folly and pride and arrogance of his mind sat quietly in Lakhnauti and divided the country of Irán and Túrán among his adherents, and no one dared to say “these dominions are outside the scope of the Sulán's power why do you divide them?”* They say that some unfortunate merchant laid a complaint of poverty before Aláu-d-Dín, who asked “where does this fellow come from?” They answered “from Iṣfahán” then he ordered them to write a document to Iṣfahán which should have the force of an assignment of land to him. The merchant would not accept this document, but the Vazírs did not dare to represent this fact and reported “the ruler of Iṣfahán, by reason of his travelling expenses and assem­bling his retinue for the purpose of subjugating that country, is in difficulties.” He thereupon ordered them to give a large sum of money far beyond his expectations; and when his tyranny and oppression exceeded all bounds the Amírs of Khilj consenting together put him to death and raised to the throne Malik Husámu­d-Dín Khiljí who was one of the nobles of Khilj and Garmsír and one of the servants of Muḥammad Bakhtyár. The reign of Alí Mardán lasted thirty-two years.*

Another was Malik Husainu-d-Dín* abovementioned who became possessed of the whole country of Tirhut and Bengála and Jájnagar and Kámrúd and gained the title of Sulán Ghiyáu-d-Dín, till in the months of the year 622 H., he sent to the Sulán Shamsu-d-Dín Iyaltimish thirty-eight head of elephants and seventy thousand tanqahs* in cash as a present and acknowledged ^61. the Sulán's authority, as will be mentioned, if God (be He exalted) so will it. And in the year 624 H. Malik Náṣiru-d-Dín Muḥam-mad ibn* Sulán Shamsu-d-Dín went from Oudh to Lakhnautí at the instigation of some of the Amírs,* and Ghiyáu-d-Dín* who at that time had taken an army from Lakhnautí to Kámrúd turned back, and fought a severe battle with Malik Náṣiru-d-Dín and was taken prisoner together with the majority of his generals and was put to death. The duration of his reign was twelve years.* The mention of these few kings of the regions of Hindustán incidentally with the affairs of the Suláns of Dehlí was both opportune and necessary, and the affairs of the remaining Muizzíyeh kings who attained to the Sulanat of Multán and other kingdoms are mentioned in other places.