A History of the Mahrattas v2.c41.34

v2.c41.34

Muttra, Sindeea inflicted upon him the punishment of Tushheer, sending him round the bazaar on a jackass, with his face to the tail, and a guard instructed to stop at every considerable shop and beg a cowree, in the name of the Nuwab of the Bawunee. The wretched man becoming abusive under this contemptuous treatment, his tongue was torn out of his mouth. Gradually he was mutilated further; being first blinded, as a retribution for his treatment of the Emperor, and subsequently deprived of his nose, ears, hands and feet, and sent to Delhi. Death came to his relief upon the road, it is believed by his being hanged upon a tree, March 3, 1789; and the mangled trunk was sent to Delhi where it was laid before the sightless monarch, the most ghastly Nuzzur that ever was presented in the Deewan Khas.' (Mughal Empire, p. 184.)]