The Nāṣirī Generations 180.4

180.4

By command of the Sultan-i-Ghazi a daughter of Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, was given in marriage to Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak; and another daughter was married to Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jah. Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, had likewise two sons, one of whom he had placed with a preceptor. One day that preceptor, by way of chastisement and discipline, struck the boy over the head with an earthen water-flask. The decree of destiny had come, and the water-flask struck him in a mortal place, and the boy died. Information was conveyed to Sultan Taj-ud-Din, Yal-duz, who forthwith, out of his excessive clemency and exemplary piety, sent funds to the preceptor for his expenses, with directions that "he should get out of the way, and undertake a journey, before the boy’s mother became aware of her son’s fate, lest she might cause any injury to be done him, in anguish for the loss of her son." This anecdote is a proof of the goodness of disposition and the purity of faith of that amiable Sultan.