Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 38.1.4

38.1.4

The officers of the guards, who had cleared the way for the King's accession, are put to death. — The King disgusts his nobles by raising low persons to high dignities. — One Mullik Khoosrow, a Hindoo of the lowest origin, is enrolled among the nobility, and is appointed to the command of the army. — The King indiscriminately orders the gates of the prisons to be thrown open, by which 17,000 persons are set free — he modifies all the regulations regarding trade introduced by his father — he abandons himself to licentiousness, and the most disgraceful vices. — The King sends an army to Guzerat, and goes in person to the Deccan — sends Mullik Khoosrow with the main body of the army, towards Malabar, and returns to Dehly. — A plot discovered against the King's life. — The leader of the conspiracy, a cousin of the King, suffers death. — The princes at Gualiar are also murdered, and the widow of one of them is brought to Dehly, and placed in the King's haram. — The King becomes totally regardless of all decency in his amours and vices. — Mullik Khoosrow returns from the Deccan — The King goes forth to meet him — embraces him publicly. — Khoosrow aims at the throne. — Plot to murder the King publicly talked of. — The King warned by his tutor — rejects the admonition — is murdered by Mullik Khoosrow.