Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 335.3

335.3

Such a mark of disrespect induced the King to imprison the minister, who died in confinement of a broken heart. Syud Nasir, one of the King’s favourites, who had been distinguished at the court of Zein-ool-Abid-Deen, was also banished, and he shortly afterwards died. The King, however, made the family of the latter some reparation, by inviting his son, Syud Hussun, from Dehly, and appointing him prime minister. That nobleman entirely disappointed the hopes entertained of him; for as soon as he obtained sufficient influence he exercised it in effecting the destruction of many of the other nobles, and in confining the commander-in-chief, Mullik Taj Bhut. Among other officers who fled from his persecution was Jehangeer Makry, who took protection in the fort of Lohkote. Shortly afterwards, the King being taken dangerously ill, by a relapse of his old complaint, the flux, and seeing that he could not long survive, sent for his minister, and thus addressed him:—“All my own children are too young to be placed in charge of the government; it is, therefore, my wish, that one of my nephews, either Yoosoof Khan, the son of Beiram Khan, or Futteh Khan, the son of Adhum Khan, should succeed me.” The minister, pretending submission, promised obedience, and the King shortly afterwards died. But we are not informed of the exact time when this event happened, and, consequently, are unable to fix the precise limit of his reign, which, I am led to believe, must have been about nineteen years.