تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.13.3

11.13.3

he is brought in to the sultan, who clothes him in a fine robe and gives him a necklace and bracelets of gold according to his rank. The sultan said to him, 'Bring them to me!' He said, 'They are ashamed to come in to you by day because of their relatives and the people of their religion.' He said to him, 'Bring them to me by night!' So Khusraw Khān gathered a group of the bravest and most prominent Hindus, among them his brother Khān-i Khānān. It was the hot season, and the sultan was sleeping on the roof of the palace, with no one with him at that time but a few pages. When they had passed through the four gates, fully armed, and reached the fifth gate, where Qāḍī Khān was, he found their business suspicious, sensed evil and prevented them from entering, saying, 'I must hear permission for their entry from Khwand ʿĀlam himself, and then they may enter.' When he prevented them from entering they fell upon him and killed him, and the uproar rose at the gate. The sultan said, 'What is this?'