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arose throughout the camp, and everything began to be turned topsy- 

 turvy. The elephants were caparisoned with haudahs and brought 

 before the royal pavilion ; the household servants came out, and every 

 one stood in waiting at his proper post ; the sentries kept shouting 

 and bawling out ; the clergy read the Qoran ; the minstrels breathed 

 forth music ; the aristocracy on paying homage offered their congra- 

 tulations and tendered their services ; and the door-keepers raised the 

 continual cry of " Bismillah" (in the name of God). 



The wretched Ikit Khan then out of intense folly and stupidity, 

 wished to enter into the interior of the haram among the females, 

 but Malik Dinar, the custodian of those apartments would not per- 

 mit him ; for arming himself together with his comrades, he took his 

 stand before the door, and kept it securely, saying to the ill-fated Ikit 

 Khan, " You must shew me the head of Sultan 'Alauddin before I 

 can let you enter the haram." 



At the time when the Sultan had been wounded by the arrows, all 

 the horsemen engaged in the manoeuvre dispersed, and a great disturb- 

 ance arose among them, every one going off in a different direction, 

 until there were only some sixty or seventy men left with the Sultan. 

 "When he recovered his senses after Ikit Khan's departure, they found 

 that he had received two wounds in the arm, and had lost a good 

 deal of blood ; so they washed and bound up the wounds, and slung 

 the arm from his neck in handkerchiefs. 



On coming to himself, the Sultan made certain, that the Maliks 

 and Amirs and a vast body of the soldiery in the Camp must be in con- 

 federacy with Ikit Khan, or he would never without their support 

 have been able to make such an outbreak. 



He accordingly thought of abandoning his Camp and proceeding at 

 once from the spot to gain Ulugh Khan at Jhayin, purposing to march 

 night and day until he reached his brother, when he could adopt any 

 plan that might seem most conducive to the recovery of his kingdom, 

 or could flee from thence to some distant quarter, which ever plan 

 might prove most expedient hereafter. 



With this idea, he was about to start forthwith for Jhayin, had not 

 Malik Hamiduddin, the Vakilidar, son of 'Umdatulmulk, senior, 

 who was the Aristotle and the Buzurjmihr of the age, dissuaded 

 him from the measure and said, " Your Majesty should proceed 



