تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.14.7

11.14.7

it never leaves the sultan, whether travelling or at home. When Tughluq and his companions made for him, the fighting grew hot between them and the Hindus; the sultan's companions were routed and no one remained with him. He fled, dismounted from his horse, threw off his clothes and weapons, kept only a single shirt, let his hair hang loose between his shoulders as the faqīrs of Hind do, and entered a garden there. The people rallied to Tughluq, and he made for the city; the kotwāl brought him the keys, and he entered the palace and lodged in one part of it. He said to Kishlū Khān: "You shall be sultan." Kishlū Khān said: "No, you shall be sultan," and they disputed. Kishlū Khān said to him: "If you refuse to be sultan, then your son shall rule." He disliked this, and so accepted, sat on the royal throne, and the elite and common people swore allegiance to him. After three days hunger pressed hard on Khusraw Khān, hiding in the garden; he came out and wandered about it, found the caretaker and asked him for food, but he had none. So he gave him his ring and said: "Go and pawn it for food." When he took the ring to the market, the people were suspicious of him and brought him to the shiḥna, that is, the magistrate, who took him in to Sultan Tughluq, and he told him who had given him the ring. He sent his son Muḥammad to fetch him; he seized him and brought him riding on a tattū (with two two-dotted t's, the first with a and the second with u), that is, a pack-pony. When he stood before him he said: "I am hungry, bring me food." He ordered him given sherbet, then food, then beer, then betel. When he had eaten he stood up and said: