The Nāṣirī Generations 198.3

198.3

and a sister of the Sultan, who had been married to the son of the Kazi, Nasir-ud-Din and had, at her own request, been repudiated by him, the Deputy [Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Aet-kin], having taken to wife, assumed the triple naubat, and stationed an elephant at the entrance of his own residence [out of parade], and the grandeur of his affairs and the execution of his mandates lasted until the month of Muharram of the year 638 H., when, unexpectedly, on Monday, the 8th of that month, by command of the Sultan, a discourse was delivered within the Kasr named Safed [the White Castle]. After the termination of the discourse, Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Bahram Shah, from the upper part of the palace, despatched two reckless Turks, after the manner of Fida-is, so that, in front of the dais, in the royal Audience Hall of the Kasr-i-Safed, they martyred Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Aet-kin, by the wound of a knife. They inflicted on the Wazir, the Nizam-ul-Mulk, Muhazzab-ud-Din, two wounds in the side; but, as his appointed time was not come, he got away from them and escaped outside. Malik Badr-ud-Din, Sunkar, the Rumi, became Amir-i-Hajib, and assumed the direction of state affairs;