Riyaz al-salatin 61.3

61.3

Malik Andil who held tightly the hair of the eunuch's head, did not let it go, but shouted out to Yugrush Khan who was standing outside the room, to come up quickly. Yugrush Khan, the Turk, with a number of Abyssinians, instantly came in, and finding Malik Andil underneath the eunuch, hesitated in attacking with the sword. In the interval of search, the lights had fallen under the hands and feet of the two wrestlers and had got extinguished, and all was dark. Malik Andil shouted out to Yugrush Khan, "I am holding the hair of the eunuch's head, and he is so broad and robust, that his body has become in a way my shield; do not hesitate to strike with your sword, since it will not penetrate through, and even if it does, it does not matter; for I and a hundred thousand like me can die in avenging the death of our late master." Yugrush Khan gently inflicted some strokes with his sword on the back and shoulder of Sultan Shahzada, who feigned being dead. Malik Andil then got up, and along with Yugrush Khan and the Abyssinians, went out, and Tawachi Bashi, entering the bed-room of Sultan Shahzada, lighted up the lamp. Sultan Shahzada, fancying him to be Malik Andil, before the lamp was lit, from fear not mounting the throne, had escaped into a cellar. Tawachi Bashi proceeding towards the cellar, entered it; then again Sultan Shahzada feigned being dead.