Muntakhab al-tawarikh 37.3.6
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 37.3.6
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37.3.6
When the populace saw what had occurred, every one of them went into hiding and there was dismay in all quarters. Putting to death some of the Amirs at the door of the palace, the Barawas entered the Sultan’s haram and tore Farid Khan and Mangu Khan, the two infant sons of Sultan ‘Alau-d-Din, from their mother’s arms and cut off their heads, and committed every kind of violence they wished, and in one moment scattered to the four winds all the honour and glory of ‘Alau-d-Din and Qutbu-d-Din. Verse. In one hour, in one moment, in one instant The whole course of the world becomes changed. And when they had glutted themselves with murder and rapine, they sent for certain of the Amirs, namely ‘Ainu-l-Mulk Multani, and Malik Fakhru-d-Din Juna, by whom is meant Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughlaq Shah, and Malik Wahidu-d-Din Quraishi with the two sons of Qarabeg and other notable Amirs, and kept them all that night till morning upon the roof of the Hazar Sutun; and when it was day they made all the ‘Ulama and chief men of the city swear allegiance to Khusru Khan, and read the Khutbah in his name. By craft they got the upper hand of a certain party whom they suspected of being opposed to them, and sent them to the world of non-existence, and made over the family of Qazi Ziyau-d-Din Qazi Khan, all except his wife who fled, to the aforesaid Randhol.