1870.] Translations from the Tdrikh i Firuz Shahi. 5 



bottles. All were smashed, and the broken bits were thrown in 

 heaps before the Badaon gate. The bottles of wine were also taken 

 from the assembly rooms and poured out, and the quantity of wine 

 thus thrown away was so great, that pools and puddles were formed as 

 in the rainy season. The Sultan 'Alauddin also discontinued his wine- 

 assemblies, and he told the Maliks to mount elephants and go to the 

 gates of the city, and into the streets and the districts, the bazars and 

 sarais, and proclaim that it was his order that no one should drink or 

 sell wine, or have anything to do with wine. Decent people gave up 

 wine drinking as soon as the order was published, but shameless ill- 

 disposed wretches, pimps and panclerers, erected stills (Hind, bhatti), 

 and distilled spirits from sugar, and drank and sold wine in secret ; 

 or they filled leather bags outside the town with wine and put them 

 between loads of grass or fuel, or had recourse to other tricks of con- 

 veying wine into the city. The spies made strict inquiries, and the 

 guards at the gates and the runners (harid) posted there examined 

 every one, and seized the wine and the owners, and took them before 

 the Palace. It was then ordered to give the wine to the elephants 

 of the Imperial stables to drink ; and such as had sold it, or smuggled 

 it into the city, or had drank any, were beaten with sticks, and 

 . fettered, and put into prison, where they were detained for some time. 

 But as the number of the prisoners increased very much, they made 

 wells before the Badaon gate at a place where all people pass by, and 

 into these wells all were thrown that drank or sold wine.] 



Some from the distress and misery they suffered in the wells 

 died there, while others who were released after a time, came out 

 half dead, and it took ages for them gradually to recover their health, 

 and pull up strength. Many, therefore, through fear of imprisonment, 

 abjured the use of wine, and if they were unable to control their 

 appetites, they used to go [to the fords] of the Janmah, and 

 the villages ten or twelve Jcos off, and drink it there. In Ghiaspur, 

 however, and Indarpat,* and Kiluk'hari, and the villages four or five 



# Ghiaspur and Indarpat are portions of Dihli. Kilok'hari had been noticed 

 before. Ghiaspur is that portion of Dihli where Nizamuddin Aulia lies buried. 

 It is also called Mughulpur, from a party of Mughuls that were converted to 

 Islam and settled there ; Baddoml., p. 173, 1. 4. I am not quite sure whether 

 this Mughulpur is not the same as Afghdnptir, mentioned before (J. A. S. B. for 

 1869, p. 214, note ) ; for the parganah and the town of Afghanpur in Satnbhal 

 also were called both Afghanpur and Mughulpur. 



