Later Mughals v1.c6.s10.15

v1.c6.s10.15

As Kam Bakhsh had been informed that notes and messages had passed between Ahsan Khan, Saif Khan and Rustam Dil Khan, he caused the pen-case of the prisoner to be searched. There a letter was found from Saif Khan addressed to Rustam Dil Khan. It was a reply to an enquiry as to how the advisers of Kam Bakhsh were to be approached and its purport was that it was best to work first for the consent of Ahsan Khan, next for that of Ahmad Khan and then that of the others. The perusal of this letter had the erroneous effect of convincing the Prince of these men's disaffection. After an imprisonment of three days he ordered that Rustam Dil Khan, bound hand and foot, should be thrown under the feet of his own elephant. But, in spite of all their efforts to carry out this order, the elephant would not injure Rustam Dil Khan. Another elephant was brought, the prisoner was trodden to death under its feet, and his body paraded through the city. It was then buried under the trees in the garden of the Imli Mahal, near a palace of the former kings.