Tarikh-i Hindi 17.6

17.6

On the same day Nizamu-l Mulk, with his usual impudence, put on the official dress of the Amiru-l umara, which had been promised to Burhanu-l Mulk, who, on being informed of this, under the impulse of ambition, represented to Nadir Shah, that Amiru-l umara Khan-dauran deceased was the only person of importance in the government, and that now there was no man in the kingdom equal to him in power or dignity; that Nadir Shah should contrive to take Muhammad Shah prisoner, and make himself master of the country. Having no regard for gratitude, deluded by the base avarice of this world, and having no shame even for contradicting his own words, he occasioned the general slaughter and great contentions and disasters which ensued.