2 Translations from the Tarikh i Firiiz Shdhi. [No. 1, 



in four things ; first, the king's disregard as to the affairs of the 

 nation, whether tliey are prosperous or adverse ; secondly, wine, 

 for people are in the habit of having parties for the purpose of wine- 

 drinking, when they disclose their most secret thoughts to each other, 

 make confederates and hatch conspiracies ; thirdly, the friendship, 

 amity, relationship, and constant intercourse existing among the 

 Maliks and Amirs, and their close connexion with one another ; 

 so that if any accident befals one of them, a hundred others on account 

 of their connexion, relationship, and attachment to him, become his 

 confederates ; and fourthly, wealth, by reason of which the ideas of 

 treason and disaffection enter their brains, and disloyalty and ingrati- 

 tude come to a head ; for, were people destitute of wealth, every one 

 would attend to his own business and employment, without giving 

 heed to conspiracies and rebellions ; and were no means at their 

 disposal, such ideas would never enter the minds of poor and 

 impoverished folks. 



Some time after Haji Maula's revolt, Sultan 'Alauddin succeeded 

 with immense toil and difficulty in capturing the fort of Rantambhur, 

 whereupon he put Rai Hamir Deo, and the new converts, who had 

 fled from the Grujrat insurrection and taken shelter with him, to 

 death. Rantambhur, together with the surrounding country, was given 

 to Ulugh Khan, and whatever was in the fort became his. 



The Sultan then returned from Rantambhur to Dihli, and being 

 greatly incensed against the inhabitants of that city, sentenced many 

 of the chief men to be exiled from it ; and he himself would not 

 enter the town, but took up his quarters in the suburbs. 



Ulugh Khan for four or five months during the Sultan's absence 

 enlisted an immense force, purposing to effect the invasion of Talinga 

 and Ma' bar [Malabar] ; but fate happened to overtake him, and he 

 was seized with death about the time of his approach to the capital. 

 His corpse was accordingly brought into the city, and interred in his 

 own mansion. The Sultan was deeply grieved at the sad event [and 

 distributed a great deal of alms to the memory of the departed]. 



[The Sultan 'Alauddin* then took active measures to render revolts 

 in future impossible. First of all, he commenced with confiscating 



* Here is a blank in Major Fuller's translation, extending from p. 283, 1. 5, 

 from below, Ed. Bibl. Indica, to p. 285, last line. The text of this portion is 



