History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.165

c6.165

“ The Sultan Tughluq Shah ordered the table to be spread and the food was brought. When the maliks and amirs came out to wash their hands, the lightning of a calamity from heaven descended upon the people of the earth, and the roof of the pavilion under which the Sultan was seated came down with a crash all of a sudden, so that the Sultan along with five or six others was crushed under the debris and died.”⁷³ Ibn Batūtah, the Moorish traveller gives a detailed account of the circumstances relating to the death of Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq. The causes of estrangement between the father and the son he points out to be :—