Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.18.3

42.18.3

the fact is exactly as I have related." The Doctors, having quietly heard the report, observed that, "If the fact had really happened as it was just now reported, how came it that the horses were sent two by two to the doors of the Iranian Lords in the Imperial service, and slaughtered there?" Saadet-qhan answered, "That this was also a groundless report, which had been much embroidered by the malignity of an uninformed public; and that the fact was as follows: Shah-djehan-abad being then a new city, there were Persian Lords lodged in every quarter of it; and as slaughtering the horses in one single place might have occasioned a crowd and some tumult, whilst the poor of the next quarter would have remained without their share, orders were given to slaughter the horses in every quarter, two by two, that every "one might enjoy a share of their flesh without tumult." Such was the turn which the envoy gave to this strange affair; but the Emperor informed of this conversation by the Gazette of Haider-abad, was exceedingly pleased with Saadet-qhan's ingenious solutions, and he wrote him an obliging letter full of applause; after which he marched straight to Haider-abad. Ab8l-hassen confounded at this sudden intelligence, wrote a very respectful letter to the Emperor, where he mentioned his having submitted to every condition imposed upon him by the treaty, and his readiness to execute any further commands that should be laid upon him.