268 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |N.S., XIX, 
Ibn Batiita, the celebrated Arab traveller, who was an 
eye-witness, gives a very interesting 
account of viel Mulk’s revolt. He 
vies with the Sultan, when Aynu'l- Mulk with the aid of his 
‘others rose — Sultan Muhammad Tughluq. The 
ba is a long one, has been left out in the abridgment 
translated by Beate Lee (1829) and almose skipped over by 
Eiot-Dowson. I will give only a brief account of what Ibn 
Batata writes, from the original Arabic published by C. 
Defrémery, Paris 1855. 
Owing to dearth, the Sultan encamped on the Ganges, 
ten days’ journey from Dihli. He ordered his men to build 
houses, as their grass sheds had greatly suffered from fire, 
when they used to put their valuables into pits dug in the 
earth. The traveller Ibn Batitita went at that time to live 
where the Sultan was. The country on the west of the river, 
where the Sultan lived, was suffering from dire famine ; and 
that on the east was fertile he Governor (Amir) of this side 
—consisting of Oudh, Za farabad, Lucknow and other places— 
was ‘Aynu ‘T-Mulk ibn Mahir (Mahru).' He used to supply daily 
fifty thousand mans of grains, consisting of wheat, rice and gram 
(hamens) for the fodder of the cattle. The Sultan ordered that 
the elephants and the greater number of horses and mules 
should be transferred to. the fertile east, and asked ‘Aynu'l- 
Mulk to take care of them. ‘Aynu’l- Mulk had four brothers— 
Shahrullah, Nasrullah, Fadlullah, and another one, whose 
name the traveller forgot. They contrived with him to seize 
the elephants and beasts of burden, set ‘Avnu’l-Mulk as Chief 
and revolt against the Sultan ; and that ‘Aynu’l-Mulk should 
fly and join them at night. The e King of India had a custom 
to associate with every amir—great or small—a slave to watch 
him, and also a female slave to watch his female members ; 
Ibn Batuta’s account. 
with what they Be The Intex again transmitted the same 
crossing over the river. The Sultan “became very mu 
vigtieagine of his own safety, as the beasts of i; bengans 
| From this : appears that ‘Aynu'lt Mulk’s father was ‘ealioa 4 Mahra 
r Mahir. (The latter is apparently a misprint. ) But what to an n Arab 
Pes es to be the name of ‘Aynu'l-Mulk’s father, might be 
2 Accoeding tos Aynu’l-Mulk’s letters his brothers as noted via 
were named—Fakhru'd-Din, Muazzumu’d-Din and Nizému’d-Din. — 
of pnd agree witli the names given b feber Batuta, probably s 
of them were ‘Aynu’ ‘Mules cousins ording to Ibn Batuta, is 
prot ea. except one, fled with their Taniie poy valuables. 
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