[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) › 223.3.4 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 223.3.4 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 223.3.4 - **Language:** English ### [223.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3.4) Mahmood Khan was not disposed to dispute the qualifications ascribed to Oothman Khan, but was unwilling to have his courage or abilities brought in competition with those plans which he himself meditated on the throne; being fully convinced, that neither the disposition nor ability of Ghizny Khan were calculated to withstand the efforts he had resolved to make to forward his own views for the eventual usurpation of the government. Mahmood Khan therefore replied to the deputies, that it was his business to obey the will of his sovereign, who had declared Ghizny Khan his successor, and remarked that he had never presumed to oppose his wishes. Zuffur Khan, a person of Prince Oothman’s party, despairing of the King’s life, fled from camp, in order to induce the keepers of the Prince, then in confinement at Mando, to release him, and give him an opportunity of disputing the crown with his brother. The minister, Mahmood Khan, hearing of this circumstance, informed the heir-apparent, Ghizny Khan, who ordered a party of fifty men of the royal guards to overtake and bring back Zuffur Khan and those who had accompanied him. The officer commanding the guard being well disposed towards the Prince Oothman refused to allow the horses to be saddled without an order from the King himself; and communicating the circumstance to one of the officers of the household, who was also inclined to favour Prince Oothman, he told the master of the horse to speak so loud that the King might overhear him; - [Previous: 223.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3.3) - [Next: 223.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3.5) - [Up: 223.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.223.3.4) · Pramāṇa