[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) › 30.2 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 30.2 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 30.2 - **Language:** English ### [30.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30.2) When Sooltana Ruzeea Begum was confined in the fort of Bituhnda, her brother Beiram, one of the sons of Shums-ood-Deen Altmish, ascended the throne on Monday the 27th of Rumzan, in the year 637. Yekhtyar-ood-Deen Aluptugeen, with the assistance of Khwaja Mehdy Ghiznevy, having espoused the King's sister, widow of the late Kazy Yekhtyar-ood-Deen, by degrees got the entire government into his own hands. He also maintained an elephant at his gate, a piece of state reserved solely for royalty. This circumstance having excited much jealousy in the King's mind, he employed two Toorky slaves to feign drunkenness, and in that state to endeavour to assassinate both Aluptugeen and the Vizier. Accordingly, on a certain day, these Toorks while the King was giving public audience, having pressed into the crowd, became very troublesome. Aluptugeen, who stood first in the rank of nobles went to turn them out, but they drew their daggers, and first plunging them into his breast, ran to the Vizier, on whom, also, they inflicted two severe stabs; but he escaped through the crowd, without being mortally wounded. The slaves were immediately seized and cast into chains but shortly after were pardoned and released. - [Previous: 30.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30.1) - [Next: 30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30.3) - [Up: 30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.30.2) · Pramāṇa