Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 223.3.2

223.3.2

On the third day it was found and brought to him by a foot-passenger, who received five hundred tunkas for his honesty. Sooltan Hooshung observed, "This circumstance puts me in mind of a similar event which happened to Feroze Toghluk, King of Dehly, previously to his death. One day that king having lost a ruby from off his head on a hunting-party, gave five hundred tunkas to a peasant who found it. Sometime after, Feroze said, 'This is a hint to me to prepare for my long journey into the other world, when I must part “with all the rubies and other jewels which I possess?” Sooltan Hooshung also remarked, that he was sure this circumstance portended his own dissolution. The courtiers observed, that he should recollect that when Feroze made this speech he was upwards of ninety years of age, and it was not surprising, therefore, that death very shortly verified his prediction. “Your Majesty,” they said, “is, by the blessing of God, just now in the prime of life, the circumstances, therefore, appear altogether different.” He was, however, shortly after afflicted with a violent attack of the stone. On the approach of this dangerous disease, he marched towards Mando, having formally proclaimed his eldest son, the Prince Ghizny Khan, his successor; and laying hold of the young man’s hand in public durbar, delivered him into the hands of his favourite minister, Mahmood Khan, who promised to support his right to the throne, even to the last drop of his blood.