Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 60.3

60.3

Sikundur Khan, the son of Mahomed Khan, a brave young man, being present, said aloud to the King, "Is my estate then to be conferred on a seller of dogs?" Mahomed Khan Firmully, who was present, endeavoured to check the impetuosity of his son; but he only inflamed his passion the more. He charged the King in plain terms with a design to extirpate his family. Surmust Khan, to whom the estate had been given, and who was a man of uncommon strength and stature, seized Sikundur Khan by the throat; but that young man, drawing his dagger, stabbed him to the heart, and laid him dead at his feet. Perceiving the desperate situation in which he stood, he attacked all those who endeavoured to oppose him, killing several chiefs, and wounding others. He next attacked the King himself, who, leaping from the throne, ran into the seraglio, and on Sikundur Khan's pursuing him, shut the door in his face, which stopped his progress, and enabled Mahomed Shah to draw the bolt and secure himself. The desperate youth, finding himself disappointed, rushed back into the audience-chamber, and dealt death on all sides, till at length Ibrahim Khan Soor, the King's cousin and brother-in-law, attacking Sikundur Khan with some soldiers, they cut him to pieces. Dowlut Khan Lohany killed Mahomed Khan Firmully, the youth's father, though he could not be responsible for his son's rashness.