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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
a. d. 1405 — 1494. 
The day after the emperor’s death, the body was 
embalmed with camphor, musk, and rose-water, 
wrapped in fine linen and placed in an ebony coffin. 
It was then conveyed to Samerkund, and interred with 
regal magnificence. Timur’s grandson, Khalil Sultan, 
the third son of Miran Shah, was raised to the throne. 
He was in the twenty-second year of his age ; an 
amiable prince, of refined talents, of a warm and ge- 
nerous temper, but not fitted to direct the affairs of 
a distracted kingdom, and suppress the disorders oc- 
casioned by the dissensions of a turbulent nobility. 
After a short but tumultuous reign, he was deposed 
by his refractory nobles ; upon which, Shah Rukh, the 
late emperor’s youngest son, and uncle to the deposed 
monarch, took possession of the imperial sceptre, and 
governed the extensive dominions left by his father, 
with a firm and vigorous administration until his 
death, which happened a.d. 1446. 
Upon the death of this prince, the peace of the em- 
pire was disturbed by the claims of his sons, who each 
seized upon different portions, maintaining perpetual 
hostilities with each other. Ulug Beg, eldest son of 
the late sovereign, kept possession of Samerkund, of 
