Muntakhab al-tawarikh 39: Wealth of Makhdumu-l Mulk.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 311.] [Makhdumu-l Mulk died at Ahmadabad, and in the year 990 Kazi 'Ali was sent from Fathpur to ascertain what property he had left. When he came to Lahore, he found such vast treasures as defied the key of conjecture to open their lock. Several chests of ingots of gold were discovered in his sepulchre, where he had caused them to be buried as corpses, and the wealth which lay open to the eyes of the world was such that none but the Creator could ascertain it. All these bricks of gold, together with his books, which he looked