The Nāṣirī Generations 159.2

159.2

The followers of ’Ali Shah, after five days, when they found the city had become tranquil, and that ’Ali Shah still remained in durance, contrived to get up another tumult. They placed a number of men in chests, and pretended that they were going to bring treasure into the city from without, such was the plan they chose to enable them to enter the city and create another disturbance; but, unexpectedly, one among them who had conceived the idea of this wicked action came and gave information about The chests were seized at the gate of the city, and about eighty men came out of the chests, of whom three were of those who had killed Sultan Mahmud. All three were made a public example of and put to death, two others were cast headlong from the hill [of Azad], and seventy-five were thrown at the feet of the elephants and killed, amid the clamours and reprobation of the crowd.