Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s5.2

c14.s5.2

¹⁰¹ The king was believed to be a regicide. Besides, he used to abandon himself to the most shameless excesses, particularly in drunkenness. One day in a state of intoxication he fell into a reservoir of water. Four female slaves, at the risk of their lives, pulled him out. Next day, when they related to him the incident, he thought they were ironical about his inebriety and cut them down with his own sword in spite of their cries for mercy. Ferishta, II, 261. His father Ghayāsuddīn (1469-1500) was no better. He maintained a harem as large as a city. Ferishta, II, 261. Also, *Memoirs of Jahāngīr*, Rogers and Beveridge, I, 366-67.