The Nāṣirī Generations 187.1.7

187.1.7

When his mother heard this conclusion from the astrologers, she commanded that she should be suspended with her head downwards, with her two legs bound together ; and the astrologers were placed in order that they might continue to observe the horoscope. When the time came, they agreed that the [auspicious] hour of birth was now arrived. She directed that she should be taken down, and forthwith Lakhmaniah was born. On reaching the ground, his mother, unable any longer to endure the agony of labour, died, and Lakhmaniah was placed upon the throne. He reigned for a period of eighty years, and trustworthy persons have related to this effect, that, little or much, never did any tyranny proceed from his hand ; and whosoever preferred a request to him for anything, other than one lak [one hundred thousand] he did not bestow, after the manner of the beneficent Sultan, Kutb-ud-Din, the Hatim of his time. It has been narrated on this wise, that, as in that country, the kauri [shell] is current in place of silver the least gift he used to bestow was a lak of kauris. The Almighty mitigate his punishment [in hell] !