[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) › 93.1.2 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 93.1.2 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 93.1.2 - **Language:** English ### [93.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1.2) but at length, intoxicated with power, he became guilty of some disrespect towards Chand Beeby, who turned her thoughts to effect his destruction. She therefore secretly sent a message to Hajy Kishwur Khan, an officer of high rank, observing, that as the Regent was unfit for his office, she wished to remove him, and to bestow it upon himself. Hajy Kishwur Khan, allured by these hopes of advancement, formed a plot, with several chiefs, to seize Kamil Khan; and one evening, while he was holding a durbar in the green palace, Kishwur Khan suddenly entered the citadel with four hundred armed men, shut the gates, confined the commanding officer of the garrison, and proceeded to secure the Regent. Kamil Khan, alarmed, attempted to fly towards the haram, in hopes of finding protection with Chand Beeby, when he was informed, by some of the eunuchs well disposed towards him, that the plot was formed by her. Confounded at this intelligence, he ran out of the palace, and, as his only chance of escape, flung himself over the wall of the citadel into the ditch, then full of water. He swam over, and passed undiscovered to the Imam gate of the city. This was, however, shut; but by the help of his turban, sash, and other cloths tied together, and fixed to one of the battlements of the city-wall, he descended, and hastened to his own house at no great distance, where he prepared for flight with his friends. - [Previous: 93.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1.1) - [Next: 93.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1.3) - [Up: 93.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.93.1.2) · Pramāṇa