Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 13.1

13.1

Causes which led to the pretensions set forth by Sooltan Abool Rusheed. — Ally Bin Ruheea, who had occupied all the territory east of Kabul, is induced to acknowledge the supremacy of the King of Ghizny. — Nagrakote retaken from the Hindoos by assault. — Toghrul, an officer of the government, who had espoused the daughter of Modood, is sent with an army to Seestan — aspires to the throne — besieges Ghizny. — The King compelled to surrender to the rebels by whom he is put to death. — Toghrul causes the daughter of Musaood the First to marry him — she is induced by Noshtugeen Hajib to procure his assassination. Sooltan Abool Rusheed, according to the most authentic accounts, was a son of the Emperor Mahmood, and by the orders of Modood was imprisoned in a castle situated between Boost and Isfira. The events which led to his accession are as follow: Abdool Ruzak, Bin Ahmud, Bin Hussun Mymundy, was the minister of Sooltan Modood, and had actually collected a force to quell an insurrection in Seestan, when hearing of the death of his master, he put off the object of his expedition, and halted at Tuckeeabad with his army. Here, in conjunction with Khwaja Abool Fuzl, Rusheed the son of Altoon Tash, and Noshtugeen Hajib Jooijy, in the latter end of the year 443, Abdool Ruzak released the Prince Abool Rusheed, and placed him on the throne (according to his own statement), by the express command of the late Sooltan Modood.