The Nāṣirī Generations 197.6

197.6

At this time, the Malik-i-Kabir [Great Malik] Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Aet-kin, became Amir-i-Hajib, and Malik Jamal-ud-Din, Ya-kut, the Habashi [Abyssinian or Ethiopian], who was Lord of the Stables, acquired favour in attendance upon the Sultan, so that the Turk Amirs and Maliks began to be envious thereat ; and it so chanced to happen that Sultan Raziyyat laid aside the female dress and issued from [her] seclusion, and donned the tunic, and assumed the head-dress [of a man], and appeared among the people ; and, when she rode out on an elephant, at the time of mounting it, all people used, openly, to see her. At this period she issued commands for her troops to proceed to Gwaliyur, and bestowed rich and valuable presents. As disobedience was out of the question this servant of the victorious kingdom, Minhaj-i-Saraj, in conjunction with the Malik-ul-Umra [the chief of Amirs] Ziya-ud-Din, Junaidi, who was the Amir-i-Dad [chief magistrate] of Gwaliyur, and with other persons of note, came out of the preserved fortress of Gwaliyur on the 1st of the month Sha'ban, 635 H., and returned to Dihli, the capital; and, in this same month, Sultan Raziyyat committed to the charge of this servant [the author] the Nasiriah College at the capital, to which was added the Kazi-ship of Gwaliyur.