'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎267] (484/684)

DYNASTY OF THE KAJARS. 267
of the ever-auspicious retinue; and on the heels of
these, the vice-regal banner, floating like the bird of
Paradise, winged its course towards Karabagh.
Crossing the bridge of Khoda Afreen on the
Aras, Abul Futtah Khan fell back from the vicinity
of Fort Panahabad; where he had ascertained that
Jaafer Kuly Beg, grandson to Ibrahim Khalil Khan,
had communicated to the Russian garrison the real
state of his grandfather's affairs; and on the night
of the 23d of Rabi-ul-awwal, he admitted 300 men
of the Russian force into his own house, outside the
fort. Previous to this, Ibrahim Khalil Khan had
halted outside the fort with his domestics and child
ren, and, using neither vigilance nor caution, had
encamped with fatal security. The third or fourth
Hour of the night had elapsed, when these troops
fell pitilessly on him, and consumed in the flames
of injustice and slaughter his wife, the sister of
Selim Khan Shakaky, with his daughter, who was
niece to Humay Khan Lesghee, and many other
wales and females of his family, who fell like moths
fluttering about the flames of the taper-like muskets.
Having thus lighted up the fire of inhumanity and
fearless cruelty in the world, with the axe of tyran
nous iniquity they felled the aged tree of Ibra-
h'ni Khalil Khan's life: in the extremity of his old
a ge tliey stocked it up from the ground, filled up
J' le P^ce where it stood with the earth of ruin and
mmiliation, and dried up the fountain of so many
years of prosperity. The Prince Viceroy however
advanced, without delay or hesitation, to give battle
to the Russians in Panahabad; and during his
ln arch, representations came to him, from Selim