Same account of the " Katun Musjeed" [Jun*; ? 



plea of his being one. of the conspirators with the prince against the 

 emperor) to death, and collecting his friends, came out to engage him 

 in the street. Upon the first onset the traitor was wounded, and drew 

 back to his house. He fled immediately towards Mewat and the prince 

 seized all his wealth and cut off his adherents. Feeroz, immediately 

 after these transactions, resigned the reins of government into the 

 hands of his son, and abdicated the throne. The prince assumed the 

 name of Mahomed (Nasecr-ood-deen-ood Duneea), ascended the throne 

 in the month of Shaban 789, and immediately ordered the Kootba to 

 be read in his own and his father's name." — Ferishtas History of Hin- 

 dustan, translated by Doiv, Vol, I. pp. 311, 312). 



From this detailed account by the historian it would appear that the 

 Kalan Musjeed was finished by the Wnzeer Khan Jehan, only two short 

 months, perhaps less, before his treason led to his downfal, his expul- 

 sion from the capital, and the loss of all his wealth, which fifteen years 

 of unlimited power, under the declining energies of Feeroz, had doubt- 

 less made an object of desire to the prince who expelled him. His 

 end was the end of most men in disgrace in those days. He had, it 

 appears, taken refuge with a chief named Goga. On the appearance, 

 in his district, of Sekunder Khan, a newly appointed governor of 

 Guzrat, who was proceeding through Mewat to take possession of his 

 office, Goga, fearing the resentment of the new emperor, seized Khan 

 Jehan, and sent him bound to Sekunder Khan, who cut off his head, 

 and forwarded it to Dehli. {Ferishta as above)* It is, therefore, 



* Here again we are under obligations to Major Loftie for extracts from the Tabak&l 

 Akbaree, relating to the career and overthrow of Klian Jehan the younger : — 



Account of the fall of Khdn Jahdn the younger, extracted from the Tabakdt Akhari. 



" In this year (787), the emperor (Firuz Shah) was greatly broken by infirmity and 

 old age, and Khan Jahiin, becoming possessed of unlimited authority, was desirous of 

 getting into his hands the emperor's son, the prince Muhammad Khan, together with 

 several of the nobility, such as Darya Khan, the son of Zafar Khan, Malik Yaakub, 

 Muhammad Haji, Malik Sama'ud-din, and Malik Kamalud-din, who were friends and 

 well wishers of the prince, and of depriving them of their power. He represented to the 

 emperor, that the prince, in concert with the aforesaid noblemen, meditated a revolt, and 

 Firuz Shah, putting faith in what he said, directed that the whole of those Lords should 

 be arrested. Intelligence of this proceeding having been received by the prince, he 

 absented himself for some days from the presence of his father. Khan Jahan then summon- 

 ed Darya Khan to appear before him, on the pretence of examining the accounts of the 

 district of Mahoba, and (upon his arrival) confined him in his (Khan Julian's) house. 

 On hearing of this, the prince was filled with apprehension, and waited upon his father, 



