Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.22.4

42.22.4

and now that in punition of some improper actions of which I have been guilty in my days of dominion, Providence has thought proper to withdraw out of my hands the royal sceptre with which it had once entrusted me, I still acknowledge its goodness in this particular, that it has not transferred my crown to any but to a Mussulman Monarch, and that too only after I had enjoyed it as much time as was probably allotted to my life." After having said so much, he took his meal quietly, and then having arrayed himself in a magnificent dress, he sent for his favorite horse, and he mounted, surrounded by the Imperial Generals, who seemed only a part of the royal cortege that followed him in a long train. At the gate of the city, he found the Imperial Prince, Azem-shah, who had pitched a tent just to land in it, and to wait for his coming; and to him he presented the chaplet of pearls, which he then wore hanging at his neck, requesting him to accept it as his nezur. The Prince spoke to him with kindness, condoled with him on this reverse of fortune, and carried him to the Emperor. Such a sight softened even that covetous man's heart. He received him with demonstrations of honor and regard ; and after having kept him some days in camp, in which time he appointed him a suitable pension, and a proper quantity of apparel, provisions, and perfumes, to be presented him daily out of the Imperial wardrobe, he sent him to the Fortress of Doolat-abad, where he was to be confined.