Later Mughals v1.c9.s27.2

v1.c9.s27.2

One of the strange occurrences of this time, one remaining quite unexplained, was the sudden appearance in the imperial audience-hall, on the 11th Shawwal (6th September, 1718), of a man who took his seat on the marble platform, the place where the khawas or pages stand, and made three salams or reverences, with his sword. When told by the carpet-spreaders and guards to desist, he drew his sword and attacked them, whereupon one of the guards dispatched him with his dagger. No one knew who he was or what his object had been. His body was made over to the kotwal. [Kamwar 181.]