Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.2.9

33.2.9

And he built for himself in the midst of the city on the bank of the canal a palace lofty and high, towering over all those palaces * * * * and there passed in the building of it five hundred years. vrns tnVftJ. When the Sultan asked Muhammad (who had been wounded) ‘If I should save your life and have you cured, and you should thus escape this deadly danger, how would you treat me in future?’ he replied, ‘If I should get well and should have an opportunity, I would kill you and raise the son of Hamir Deo to the throne.’ The Sultan wondered, and was amazed at this audacity, and enquired of his most shrewd and astute Amirs the reason why the people had so turned against him, and why these continual riots and seditions were so constantly occurring, and further sought to know how to set about remedying these evils. They shewed him several paths of conduct which would end naturally in good things. Firstly, that the king should in his own person be aware of the enterprises both good and bad which are going on in his kingdom. Secondly, that he should put an end to wine bibbing, which is the source of so much evil. Thirdly, abandonment by the nobles of their gadding about to each others’ houses and holding deliberative meetings.