Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.9.2

17.9.2

It is only after giving some idea of that event, that we shall resume in a proper place what concerns Shaocat-djung. We have said that Aaly-verdy-qhan fell into a dropsical habit of body on the ninth of the first Djemadi in the year 1169. He strove for some time to ward off the evil by a total abstinence from water; but afterwards on observing that such a distemper, when attacking a person of his age, always proved incurable (and he was then in his eightieth year), he ceased to observe any diet, or to abstain from water, or to take remedies. Such a state of things could not but greatly alarm Biby Gahassity, his eldest daughter, who was now relict of his nephew, Nevazish-mahmed-qhan. She had this longwhile cantoned herself at Moty-djil, where on seeing how matters went, she had distributed elephants and lacs of rupees to the troops of her deceased husband, in hopes of engaging them to stand by her, against Seradj-ed-doulah. She received their solemn promises, and took their oaths. When reverses are at hand, they engage into such liberalities. It is reported that on it becoming public that Aaly-verdy-qhan was drawing to his end, some of the principal persons of the city fearful of what might happen after his decease, Requested to be recommended to Seradj-ed-doulah, by putting their hand within his.