Twilight of the Sultanate c12.s1.20

c12.s1.20

Sultan Muhammad and Sarwarul Mulk had stood the siege well, but the Vazīr and his confederates were apprehensive of the Sultan's desertion to the enemy. Muhammad Shāh, too, contemplated revenge against the regicide Vazīr. In this atmosphere of mutual suspicion Sarwarul Mulk, who had succeeded in killing one Sultan, now tried his hand on the other. On 14 August, 1438 (8 Muharram, 838 H)¹⁶ he, along with the sons of Mīrān Sadr, broke into the royal chamber to do away with the King, but Muhammad, who was ever on the alert and was always accompanied by a large body of armed attendants, drew his sword and struck down Sarwarul Mulk. The sons of Mīrān Sadr were also done to death by the guards. The Sultan immediately summoned Kamālul Mulk and the latter entered the city with his army through the Baghdād Gate. Sadhāran and other Khattrī accomplices of Sarwar were led off to the tomb of Mubārak Shāh and there tortured to death, while Hoshiyār and Mubārak, the Kotwal, were decapitated in front of the Red Gate.¹⁷