History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.137

c8.137

and mounds of them rose in the fort of Tughlugabad, where they were seen a century later in the reign of Mubarak Shah Sayyid.⁶⁶ The Sultan who meant no deception, thus became the dupe of his own device, and the state treasury suffered a heavy drain. Briggs in a passage, which purports to be a translation of Firishta—though it is not to be found in the original text—writes: 'After the treasury was emptied there still remained a heavy demand. This debt the king struck off and thousands were ruined.⁶⁷ How would it have been possible for the Sultan to tide over the difficulty, if this had been true? Firishta’s statement would seem to imply a charge of dishonesty against the Sultan which is unsustainable in the face of contemporary evidence.