Muntakhab al-tawarikh 32.2.8
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 32.2.8
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32.2.8
The simple-minded Sultan Jalalu-d-Din wrote a command with his own hand in accordance with 'Alau-d-Din's request, and sent it by the hand of two confidential and trusted body-servants, one of whom was named Imadu-l-Mulk and the other Ziau-d-Din. These men when they arrived soon perceived by his manner and bearing that the face of affairs was altered: and ‘Alau-d-Din having prepared the dish for the Sultan, and having arranged for its service at a given signal, handed over those two messengers to sentries who were charged to keep them so closely guarded that not even a bird should be able to flap its wings near them;