ALI BEG AND TARTÁK*

Were descendants of Changíz Khán. At the head of thirty thousand horse, skirting the (Sewálik) mountains, he penetrated to Amroha, A. H. 704 (A. D. 1304). Sulṭán Aláu'ddín sent an army to oppose them. After severe fighting, both of these chiefs were taken prisoners and the rest as an example were trodden to death by elephants.