Muntakhab al-lubab 162.3

162.3

On the same day the order was given that men should go into the fort, to the tirpauliya, a small and dark room in which Jahandar Shah was confined, and despatch him also with the thong. Muhammad Farrukh Siyar entered the city and fort on the 17th Muharram (15th Feb. 1712 A.D.), and gave orders that, in retaliation for violent acts against his brothers and the amirs, his head should be stuck upon a spear, and carried round the city on an elephant, with the carcase lying in the howda. The corpse of Zu-l fikar was ordered to be hung head downwards from the tail of the elephant. After thus being paraded before the people, the bodies were to be brought into the city and thrown down at the gate of the fort. Directions were also given that Asafu-d daula should be placed in a palankin and conducted along with his zanana—and carrying only the clothes and appurtenances which he and his attendants stood upright in—to the house of Khan-Jahan, there to be kept in confinement and under guard. An order of confiscation was also made against the household effects of father and son, and the effects of Kokaltash Khan, Raja Sabha Chand, and some others connected with Jahandar Shah, who had incurred the anger of the Emperor and of Heaven. Raja Sabha Chand abused the officials, and so an order was given for cutting out his tongue. [More executions.]