Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.18.5

4.18.5

Such terrors were spread everywhere, and such apprehensions conceived, that Abdollah-khan's friends, who had fortified themselves in his quarter, or in its neighbourhood, were now sitting upon their elephants the whole day, and standing to their arms the whole night, the more so as shoals of disbanded soldiers were now seen armed and mounted in almost every large street. But what looks very singular is, that it was such a time of mistrust and confusion, that Emir-djemlah, at a loss what to do with his own person, chose to refuge himself in Mahmed-amin-khan's house, after having rendered himself not only odious, but even contemptible and ridiculous by his thoughtless behaviour. It was with such a pusillanimous conduct, and in such an abject state of body and mind, that he still harboured thoughts of not only contending with such mighty men, as the victorious Hossein-aaly-khan, and the Vezir Abdollah-khan, the pole of the Empire, as well as with the late Zulficar-khan, the Prince of Princes, but also of overtopping them in the state. Amidst all these movements and troubles, the Emperor who felt his own inability as well as his favourite's incapacity, and who through his innate levity of mind had already grown sick of these commotions and preparations, undertook to put an end to the whole by discarding Emir-djemlah. He was dismissed to his native country of Multan, and Ser-bulend-khan appointed to his Government of Azimabad-patna.