Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s3.21
Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s3.21
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v1.c10.s3.21
The plot, however, leaked out. The Qizilbāsh chiefs, under the leadership of the captain of the palace-guard and Muhammad Khān Qāchār, took prompt action. At midnight before the day appointed for their massacre, they started, in a body of seventy, for Nādir’s tent to forestall the blow. But the terror of the great king paralysed the feet of 57 of the conspirators and they dropped off on the way. Thirteen only entered Nadir’s tents and slew him. [*Mujmil*, 15-20; *Jahankusha*, 461.]