Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s2.t1.76

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² Compare B., 35. Compare also ibid., 33, for the public audience of Sultan Balban and how some of the envoys and Hindu vassals, who were conducted to the throne for the first time for presentation, trembled and fainted in the presence of the Sultan. The reports of these pageants had a salutary moral effect on the discontented elements in the kingdom. Compare also Ibn Batuta, K.R., II, 70; how a very large number of Afghan rebels fled away in terror and dismay when Muhammad Tughluq suddenly appeared with a small body of retainers. Compare also Macaulay, I, 20 for the view of Nanak. According to him a monarch was one who was guarded by lances, for whom bands played, who sat on a throne and was an object of salutation. Compare Arnold, 28: for the appearance of the executioner at the side of a Caliph after the transfer of the seat of government from Madina to Baghdad.