Tarikh-i Hindi 17.10

17.10

After this violence and cruelty, Nadir Shah collected immense riches, which he began to send to his country laden on elephants and camels. Muhammad Shah witnessed with the utmost emotion and indignation these outrages of Nadir Shah, which were occasioned by the rivalry of the disaffected nobles. It is narrated, that one day Nádir Sháh, in his public court, spoke some harsh and abusive words to Nizámu-l Mulk and Burhanu-l Mulk, and threatened them with punishment. When they left the court, Nizamu-l Mulk, with all the lying and fraud to which he was naturally habituated, spoke to Burhanu-l Mulk some very soft and heart-rending words, and told him that it would now be difficult to escape the hands of that tyrant; he advised that they both should at the same moment go home, and, taking a cup of deadly poison, pursue the path to death, and sacrifice their lives to their honour. After this, that chief of deceivers went to his house, and, having expressed his will to his relations, and drunk a cup of water mixed with sugar, covered himself with a sheet and went to sleep. Burhanu-l Mulk, who was a true soldier, and was not aware of his perfidy, as soon as he heard this, drank a cup of poison, and went to the next world.