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Incensed at this outrage, Saiud Nazur-ud-Deen 
Kurbali rode back directly to the capital, and com- 
plained to the king, who pacified him, at the moment, 
by promising that the offence should never be for- 
gotten, reminding him, with a mild rebuke for his 
want of proper confidence, that Alla and the Prophet 
would not neglect, on a fit occasion, to avenge his 
cause. Some time afterwards, upon the breaking 
up of the army, when it was customary to distribute 
honorary robes to distinguished officers previously 
to their return home, the king’s eyes fell upon Shere 
Moolluk, and he recollected, in an instant, the 
infamous insult which that person had formerly 
offered to his favourite Saiud. He immediately 
gave orders that a certain infuriate elephant, named 
Kussab (the Butcher), should be brought, and, 
reminding Shere Moolluk of his impious conduct to 
Nazur-ud-Deen, ordered that he should be cast 
under the feet of that terrible animal, which, in one 
minute, crushed him as a pig would crush an egg ; 
and he lay upon the ground, as lifeless as if his 
bones had been converted into dagger-hilts, and his 
skin into scabbards. 
The Madressa was built by the renowned chief 
Mahmood Gawan, of whose untimely fate mention 
is made in a former page, under the description of 
