Takmilah i Akbar-namah 23: Prince Salim.
Takmila-i Akbar-náma, of ’Ináyatu-lla (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 23
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Reports arrived that the practice of indulgence in wine drinking, and of the excessive use of opium, had affected the health of the Prince Royal, Sultan Salim, and had made his temper so irritable and tyrannical, that the slightest offences were visited with the severest punishments, that pardon was never thought of, and that his adherents were struck dumb with terror. His Majesty, aware that a word of counsel spoken in season, would avail more than a thousand at a distance, determined to proceed to Allahabad, to attempt the reformation of the Prince.