Tarikh-i ʿAlamgir-i Thani 1.3

1.3

Up to this time Ahmad Shah knew nothing of what was passing until the kettle-drums roused him from his heedlessness. Soon afterwards Ghaziu-d din's men, with some harem attendants, arrived, brought out Ahmad and his mother Udham Bai, and were about to make an end of them, when he implored them to send him to the abode of the princes, and there confine him. So they placed him and his mother in one litter, threw a sheet over their heads and took them to the dwelling of the princes. * * The new Emperor was fifty-six years of age, and had five sons, the eldest of them twenty-eight years old. * * He used to come out of his private apartments into the stone mosque or into the public hall to say the prayers at the five appointed times in the congregation; he applied himself to reading books of history, and took no pleasure in seeing dancing or hearing singing ; but he never failed on the Sabbath to attend either the Jami'-masjid or the wooden mosque within the palace. * *