Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.2.3
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 22.2.3
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22.2.3
When the Sultan having returned from the army, arrived at Kilukhari, the troops of Sultan Razziyah went out to meet him, and having seized him without fighting imprisoned him, and he died in prison. The duration of his reign was six months and a fraction. Do not set thy heart upon the world, for it is a stranger Like the singer who is every day in a new house Among the poets of that age [and the master of that time] of Ruknu-d-Din was Shihab Muhamra Bodaoni as Mir Khusru on him be mercy says in one of his opening odes: In Budaon Muhamra rises intoxicated from sleep If there comes forth from this melody the sound of the birds of Dehli