History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.171

c6.171

"When the Sultan approached the capital, he sent an order to his son Juna asking him to erect a palace at Afghanpur. Juna Khan constructed a palace in three days. Ahmad Ayāz, the royal architect (Mir 'Imārat) made the design and the foundations were so laid of this wooden structure that if elephants stood at a certain place, the whole thing was to collapse. The Sultan stayed here and entertained his friends. When the dinner was over, Juna Khan begged his permission to present the elephants. The Sultan agreed: Shaikh Rukn-al-Din informed me that he was there with the Sultan at the time and with them was the Sultan's favourite son Mahmud. Muhammad came and said to the Shaikh—' Akhund, it is now evening, come down and retire for prayer.' The Shaikh descended and the elephants were brought up on one side (of the pavilion) as arranged and it fell upon the Sultan and his son Mahmud. Muhammad ordered spades and shovels to be brought to dig and seek for his father, but he made signs to them not to hurry up and the tools were not brought till after sun-set. Then they began to dig and the Sultan was found bending over his son as if trying to save him from death. Some say that the Sultan was alive, and that an end was made of him. On the same night he was carried to the tomb which he had built for himself in the city of Tughluqabad, and there he was interred."'75 The author of the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi who