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 130 ULUGH KHAN, AFTEKWAKDS EMPEKOR BALBAN God the soldiers of Ulugh Khan thus subdued a place which the Mohammedan armies had never reached be- fore, and they returned laden with plunder to the cap- ital, where they arrived on the fifth of Rabi'-al-akhir, 655 A. H. (April, 1257 A.D.). When the royal army had returned to Delhi, Kat- lagh Khan issued from the mountains of Salmur, and Malik Balban Kishlu Khan came from Sind to the banks of the Biyah, where the two chiefs joined their forces and marched toward Samana and Kahram, taking possession of the country. The Sultan sent Ulugh Khan, Kishli Khan, and several other nobles to quell this revolt. Ulugh Khan left Delhi on Thursday, the fif- teenth of Jumada-1-awwal, 655 A. H. (May 31, 1257 A. D.), and hastened with all speed to Kaithal. Katlagh Khan was in the vicinity, and the two armies approached each other. Ulugh Khan deemed it expedient to detach the household troops from the main army, and placed them under the command of his cousin, Sher Khan. The main body, together with the elephants, he put under the command of his own brother, Kishli Khan, the lord chamberlain, thus forming two distinct divi- sions. The opposing armies drew near to each other in the vicinity of Samana and Kaithal, and their lines were within view on either side. While they were thus con- fronting each other, a man came as a spy from the camp of Malik Balban Kishlu Khan, representing that he was sent on behalf of the chiefs and nobles that were with Malik Balban, who were desirous of joining