Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 210.1

210.1

Moozuffur Shah is succeeded by his eldest son, Sikundur. — The Prince Luteef, the King’s younger brother, goes into rebellion — retires to Chittoor, where he finds protection with the Rana. — The Rana defeats the King’s army. — The King disgusts his nobles — a plot to assassinate him — his death. During the painful and protracted illness of Moozuffur Shah, each of the two factions in the army took a decided part to favour its respective leader; but the late King having expressly nominated Sikundur Khan, the eldest son, to the throne of Guzerat, the youngest, Prince Luteef, marched with his adherents towards Nundoorbar and Sooltanpoor. Sikundur Shah, after having buried the late King at Surkech, proceeded to Champanere. Here he learnt that one Shah Sheikhjee, the son of the celebrated Boorhan-ood-Deen Owlia, considered the most holy man of the age, had foretold that his brother, the Prince Bahadur, would eventually succeed to the throne. Sikundur Shah, incensed at this prediction, condescended to vent his indignation in abusing that holy personage in the most gross and indecent terms; he was also so imprudent as to treat with indignity the different nobles of his government, the supporters of his father’s throne, and to confer honours and estates on the companions of his youthful follies and excesses.