Muntakhab al-tawarikh 46.1

46.1

After the martyrdom of Tughlaq Shah, by the ill-judged agreement of the Amirs assumed the Government under the above title, and at the commencement of his reign distributed appointments among the Amirs, and raised Ruknu-d-Din Chanda to the dignity of Wazir, and eventually, when he heard that Ruknu-d-Din in concert with certain of the Amirs, was plotting sedition, and entertained ambitious designs upon the kingdom, got rid of him together with his following, taking possession of his elephants and treasure, obtained complete hold over Dihli and increased in power daily. In the meantime the Amirs of hundreds of Samana cut to pieces Malik Sultan Shah Khushdil, the Amir of Samana, who had been sent against the Sultan Muhammad Shah to the country at the foot of the hills, at the head of the reservoir of Samana and sacked his house, and sending his head to the Shahzada Muhammad Shah at Nagarkot invited him to come; Muhammad Shah accordingly left Nagarkot, and came to Samana by way of Jalandhar by continuous marches, and having gathered together the ... paraphernalia of royal magnificence for the second time the standard of royalty in the month of Rabi'ul Awwal in the year 791 H.