[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Tārīkh-i Salāṭīn-i Afāghina](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina) › [Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghana of Ahmad Yadgar (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot) › 5.2 # Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghina 5.2 Táríkh-i Salátín-i Afághana of Ahmad Yádgár (extracts) 5.2 - **Language:** English ### [5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5.2) When a short period had passed, the young man said, "Why has not the child cried again for such a long time?" The woman replied, "I have taken steps to prevent it from crying altogether." The young man was greatly disturbed, and inquired what she meant. She answered, "I have killed the boy on your account." The youth said, "O creature, who fearest not God, for the sake of a moment's pleasure you have slain the fruit of your own womb; what confidence can I place in you?" He immediately put on his clothes, with the intention of quitting the place. The woman seized his skirt, saying, "It is through you that I have acted thus, and you cease to love me; for God's sake do one thing to save me from shame. Make a hole in the corner of this room in order that I may bury him." The youth at last reluctantly consented. She accordingly brought a mattock, and gave it to him, and he dug the hole; when the woman brought the child, and gave it to him to conceal it in the ground. The young man, taken in by the woman's artifice, bent down towards the hole for the purpose of placing the child in it; and that deceitful woman then raised the mattock with both hands, and struck him so violently on the head, that she split it in two, and he fell dead into the hole. She covered him over and smoothed down the earth. The neighbour had witnessed all that had happened, and was thunderstruck at the woman's atrocity. - [Previous: 5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5.1) - [Next: 5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5.3) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghina~en-elliot.5.2) · Pramāṇa