[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 219.6 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 219.6 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 219.6 - **Language:** English ### [219.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219.6) The King having reason to be offended with him caused him to be built up in a mud-wall, leaving his head only exposed, with the intention of allowing him to be starved to death. Shortly after, the King passing the place, his eyes fell on Boorhan, and being still alive he made a bow, which induced the King to order him to be dug out; but the contraction of the clay and long fasting had reduced him, and bruised him to that degree that it became necessary to preserve him for a considerable time in cotton, during which the King’s physicians attended him until he recovered. In spite of the King’s mercy, however, Boorhan always bore malice against his sovereign, and secretly sought his life. Sometime after, during a hunting excursion, the King again became offended with Boorhan. As it is customary in the courts of all monarchs to be in favour at one time and in the back-ground at another, Boorhan was again submitted to degradation, and a second time pardoned. On his return from hunting one day the King lay down on a couch, and it occurred to Boorhan that the present afforded a favourable opportunity for revenge. This officer while in favour at court was intrusted with the command of a band of two hundred men, called the Tiger-killers, no man being embodied in that corps who had not killed a tiger. - [Previous: 219.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219.5) - [Next: 219.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219.7) - [Up: 219](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.219.6) · Pramāṇa