[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 127.3 # The Rashīdī History 127.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 127.3 - **Language:** English ### [127.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.3) Before sending him off he had despatched a special messenger \[to announce the Khan's approach\]. At about that time, Jani Beg Sultan had fallen from his horse onto his head, and his brain had become severely deranged, so that now, most of his actions and words were inconsistent with a healthy understanding, and the reins of memory fell from the hands of his intellect. On the day that this news was brought to him, it chanced that his brain was influenced by the spirit of Islam and the Holy Law (the Most High God had ordained this, for the purpose of delivering the Khan), and he said : " I am not an executioner that I should endeavour to take any man's blood." He then ordered a letter \[nishan\] to be written to Khwaja Ali Bahadur, saying: "The Moghul Sultan who has come \[to you\] has not been delivered into our custody. It would not be acting in conformity with the statutes of the Holy Law were I to take his life. \[It behoves me\] to open to him the meadows of mercy and safety, that he may wander whither he will." \[Such was the purport of his letter.\] - [Previous: 127.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.2) - [Next: 127.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.4) - [Up: 127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.3) · Pramāṇa