[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) › 91.3.7 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 91.3.7 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 91.3.7 - **Language:** English ### [91.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3.7) The King, enraged at his flight, punished all the bramins whose office it was to superintend the police with tortures, in the great square of Beejapoor, where they expired in excruciating agonies. At this time, also, renewing his suspicions of the fidelity of Assud Khan, the King conducted himself so, that the old minister was induced to withdraw for self-protection to his estates at Belgam, from whence he sent a confidential friend with an offering of nine elephants, nine horses, and many valuable curiosities, with the following letter to the King: — "Why, ah! why, art thou thus estranged from me? What have I done, what hast thou heard, what hast thou seen in me? "If I have committed a crime, let my head fall beneath the stroke of the sabre; but it is neither generous nor just to be incensed without cause. "I know not the reason of this unkindness, nor what can have occasioned such coldness. "Whatever crimes interested persons have attributed to my charge, I may have committed an hundred times; but I know not their accusations; and, like the wolf accused of destroying Yoosoof, I am innocent, and condemned unseen or unheard. The language they attribute to me has never passed my lips, nor have evil designs been conceived in my mind. - [Previous: 91.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3.6) - [Next: 91.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3.8) - [Up: 91.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.91.3.7) · Pramāṇa