Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.18.5

33.18.5

Mollah Abbass, astonished at what he saw, exclaimed that this young man surely must have been a Seyd, and sending for some pioneers, as the army was so near, he ordered a fosse to be made for him. Some of the by-standers, who had winding sheets in their bags, wanted to strip the young man, and to put a winding sheet about him. But this was objected to by the Mollah, who observed that the body must be left unstripped, as the clothes it had on were its proper winding sheet. This being agreed to, they all joined in prayers, and then committed it to the earth. " Who could guess that in the depths of the sea, " A cornelian should be found close to a heap of pebbles ? " To return to our narrative. Shudjah-ed-dowlah, without tarrying at Lucknow, came out and marched down to Seyd-pôr, close to Benares, as we have already mentioned in a former volume, whilst Shah-aalem himself was quitting the neighbourhood of Azim-abad to come to the same town. There Shudjah-ed-dowlah having paid his respects to the Prince, took him to Djossy, over against Ilah-abad, where he threw a bridge of boats upon the Ganga, and crossed over with him on the fifth Zilhidj of that same year; after which he encamped at Ilah-abad, which he made the centre of his victorious standards. From thence he advanced to Djadji, where he took up his winter quarters. In a few days he turned away all the Marhatta collectors, and established throughout the whole Anterbid Shah-aalem's government;