[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) › 127.7 # The Rashīdī History 127.7 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 127.7 - **Language:** English ### [127.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.7) He must be sent to join those who have gone before him and who will never return: or, otherwise, according to the old Moghul custom, he must be sent to the capital, where he should, by means of the gallows, be sent to his lasting home.' On reading this ill-favoured mandate, the rosy tints of joy were exchanged for the saffron hues of apprehension. Khwaja Ali Bahadur grasped the situation, and asked : " What is the cause of your dejection ? Read out the mandate.' So I read it aloud. Then Khwaja Ali Bahadur became enraged, and said: 'His brain is disordered with mischief: what-ever emanates from such a mind, if it be originally a good thought, becomes a sin, and if it be a premeditated sin — then God preserves us ! When a man has escaped from the edge of the sword, or from the foot of the gallows, he is as difficult to lay hold of as quicksilver — he disappears like camphor unmixed with pepper. Where can I find him ? The chamberlain, kissing the ground of respect, said: 'It is not reasonable that you, Bahadur, should deviate from the straight-road of loyalty and adopt that of falsehood, which is the worst of qualities. You say that the Sultan, like quicksilver, is not to be caught ; - [Previous: 127.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.6) - [Next: 127.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.8) - [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.127.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.7) · Pramāṇa