Twilight of the Sultanate c10.3

c10.3

¹ The Bib. Ind. text of T.M.S. has 17 Jamādi I, but in a footnote the editor says that the British Museum MS. has نوزدهم or 19. Elliot's MS. too had 19 (E and D, IV, 53). Ferishta writes that Mubārak Shāh ascended the throne three days after the death of Khizr Khan during which all were in mourning (Ferishta, I, 163). It was on 17 Jamādi I that Khizr Khan had died, and Mubārak Shāh ascended the throne on 19, the third day of the demise of the Sultan, when the period of mourning was over.