The Rashīdī History 199.3

199.3

Muhammadi captured Amir Jánaka. Having acted thus violently without orders, the party were thrown into the utmost consternation and knew not what to do next. A strange discussion took place among the Ulus. Some who had advised the Sultán, fled. Others, the Khán reassured with promises and agreements. In the meanwhile Bábá Sultán, who had fled the previous winter to Khatlán and Kunduz, having discovered that what Mazid and the rest of them had told him was false and groundless, returned ashamed and penitent. The Khan sent me to meet him, and I turned him back ; but I supplied him with all necessaries for the journey, before bidding him farewell, as has been related. The wife of Sháh Muhammad Sultán (the Khán's sister) and Sultán Nigár Khánim and Daulat Sultán Khánim (the Khán's aunt) and also the aunt of Sháh Muhammad Sultán's father, and the Khán's wife, Zainab Sultán Khánim (Sháh Muhammad Sultán's aunt) all came and demanded of the Khán why he had ordered the death of Sháh Muhammad Sultán. Whereupon the Khán swore a solemn oath, saying : "I did not give the order." They then said : "Deliver Muhammadi over to us! that we may avenge on him the death [of the Sultán]." To this the Khán agreed. Muhammadi appealed to me and my uncle to rescue him. He was in the service of Rashid Sultán.