Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 2.1

2.1

At the time of the death of Mahomed Toghluk, his cousin, Malik Feroze Bdrbek, nephew of Gheias-ood-deen Toghluk, was in the camp. Mahomed Toghluk having a great affection for him, inasmuch as he had paid the most devoted attention to the King during his illness, proposed making him his successor, and accordingly recommended him as such on his death-bed to his nobles. On the King’s demise, the army fell into the utmost disorder; to remedy which, Feroze gained over the majority of the Indian chiefs to his party, and prevailed on the Mogul mercenaries to remove to some distance from the camp, till he should be able to compose the differences which existed in the army. Malik Firoz Bdrbek thought it expedient, with reference to Altun Bahadur and the nobles who had come from Amir Kazghan as auxiliaries, to bestow dignities and honorary dresses upon them, according to their respective ranks, and to give them their dismissal, remarking that it was not improbable, that dissensions might arise between them and the soldiers of Hindustan, which would lead to disturbances, and therefore that it was better, before he marched, that they should break up their camp and depart. Altun Bahadur concurred in the propriety of this recommendation, and immediately striking his camp, pitched it at a distance of ten miles.