TIMUR BEG. 
95 
CHAPTER X. 
a. d. 1398 . 
Timur, after a short repose in his capital, which he 
had embellished about this time with a splendid pa- 
lace and several other public buildings, determined 
to march his victorious army into the fertile pro- 
vinces south of the Indus. Having invested his 
fourth son Mirza Shah Rukh with the sovereignty 
of Khorassan and its neighbouring principalities, and 
built another magnificent palace for the reception of 
a new bride, he prepared for his memorable inva- 
sion of Hindostan. 
Six years after the death of Feroz Toghluk Shah, 
Emperor of Delhi, Mulloo Yekbal Khan, and Sarung 
Khan, two brothers, who had been generals of that 
monarch, placed upon the throne his grandson Mah- 
mood Toghluk ; but afterwards assuming to themselves 
the sovereign power, which they exercised in his name, 
the one established himself in Delhi, the other in Mool- 
tan. The tomb of Toghluk Shah, who was certainly 
by far the greatest sovereign of the third Tartar race of 
the princes of Delhi,— all of that dynasty having borne 
the name of Toghluk, — -is a remarkably fine piece of 
monumental architecture. It is placed upon a slight 
elevation, commanding the neighbouring plain, here 
terminated by the Mewat hills, which form at once 
