Muntakhab al-lubab 177.8

177.8

The tumult was still high when the drums proclaimed the accession of Abu-l Barakat Rafi'u-d Darajat, and a declaration of amnesty was also published. * * The people were desirous to get a message sent in by artifice to Farrukh Siyar, and to bring him out of the palace; but they were unsuccessful. The women, the Abyssinians and the Turks, all prepared to fight. At length some Afghans and attendants (chelas), backed up by Najmu-d din 'Ali Khan, younger brother of Saiyid 'Abdu-llah, and * * some other traitors, entered the palace. After much search, Farrukh Siyar was found hidden in a corner of the roof, to which they got a hint from some of the women. They dragged him out with great indignity. His mother, wife, sister, and other ladies who were near the unfortunate monarch, cried and wailed, and threw themselves at the feet of the Afghans and chelas, beseeching and entreating them. * * At length the conspirators dragged him away from the women, and, having blinded him, they placed him in confinement in a room at the top of the tirauliya in the fort. This was a small and narrow room like a grave, which had been used for keeping prisoners destined for the torture. In this corner of sorrow and grief they left him, with nothing but a ewer, a vessel for the necessities of nature, and a glass to drink out of.