[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) › 68.2.7 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 68.2.7 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 68.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [68.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2.7) About midnight Dawood Khan, leaving Khan Mahomed and his followers to watch without, entered the tent with Musaood Khan and two other persons. The King was fast asleep, and an Abyssinian slave only was present, employed in rubbing his feet. The slave, startled, shouted aloud on seeing Dawood Khan with a naked dagger in his hand. The King arose, but could not open his eyes, it being the nature of the disorder to close them together. Dawood Khan rushed upon him, and plunged the dagger into his body. The King, in agony, seized the hand in which the assassin held the fatal instrument, and struggled with him. The slave, though unarmed, seized Musaood Khan, who struck him dead with one blow of his sabre; and inflicted another on the King with such effect, that he expired immediately. Fortune erects palaces for the body, And then hurls it from the throne to the grave. The world has beheld numerous scenes like this; It was not the first instance of treachery which time has witnessed : Fate places a crown of gold on the head of one, And another she consigns to the silent tomb. - [Previous: 68.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2.6) - [Next: 68.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2.8) - [Up: 68.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.68.2.7) · Pramāṇa