Muntakhab al-lubab 78.4

78.4

Madana Pant and his friends had raised suspicions in the mind of Abu-l Hasan, that Muhammad Ibrahim had been the means of bringing the Prince thither. Abu-l Hasan was very angry, and was intent upon seizing Ibrahim, and putting him to death. Muhammad Ibrahim got intelligence of this, and went to offer his services to the Prince, who received him with great favour. When intelligence of this desertion became known in Haidarabad, Abu-l Hasan was greatly alarmed, and without consulting with any of his nobles, or even caring anything for his property or the honour of his own women and family, or of others, he fled with a few servants by night, with boxes full of such valuables as he could carry, to the fort of Golkonda. When this fact became public, the stores of Abu-l Hasan were plundered, as also was the property of the merchants, worth four or five krors of rupees. The women of the soldiers, and of the inhabitants of the city, were subjected to dishonour, and great disorder and destruction prevailed. Many thousand gentlemen being unable to take horse, and carry off their property, in the greatest distress took the hands of their children and wives, many of whom could not even seize a veil or sheet to cover them, and fled to the fortress.