Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.11.4

18.11.4

His new favourites ought in such a distressed state of his affairs, to have laid down their own pretensions, and exhorted him to call to his assistance all the abilities and talents of his kingdom. They ought to have said with a common voice: "My Lord, to complete our wishes, and to fill the measure of our ambition, is an easy matter. Whenever you are yourself powerful, and honoured, some beams of your own glory shall surely be reflected on our own persons; but now think only of putting at the head of your affairs those old Generals and Ministers that have already a character." This was the language which they ought to have held, and which no one would hold. But his own thoughts were so uncertain as yet, and so fluctuating was his behaviour, that after having been for some time intent on schemes of reconciliation, he was at once so overcome by his anger and resentment, as to order cannon to be planted against Mir-djaafer-qhan's house. Radja Dullub-ram was no less dissatisfied, and difficult to manage ; he would not hear of submitting to Mohon-lal's superiority. And on the other hand, Djaagat-seat, the principal citizen of the capital, whom he had often used with slight and derision, and whom he had mortally affronted, by sometimes threatening him with circumcision, was in his heart totally alienated and lost.