The Nāṣirī Generations 286.2.8

286.2.8

The seven Nu-yins directed to try the Princes declared them guilty, and, moreover, the conspirators themselves now confessed their plot. Mangu is said to have been inclined to pardon them, but this his Nu-yins and Amirs strongly opposed. He therefore directed that they should all be imprisoned until he had time to consider what should be done with them. After a few days, Mangu again summoned his Counsellors, and asked their advice upon the matter. Some said one thing, some another, but in such wise as not to satisfy the Ka'an. Then his Wazir, Mahmud, Yalwaj, related the anecdote respecting Aristotle's reply to Alexander, about rooting up all the old trees in the garden, and replacing them with young scions, which story has done duty in scores of instances, and is applied by Firishtah, the Dakhani Historian, to the Turk chiefs in the Panjab in the reign of Ghiyas-ud-Din, Balban—the Ulugh Khan of this History, the father-in-law of Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, and his successor on the throne of Dihli.