W. Irvine — The Later Mughals (1707-1803). 
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“ Glory be to God ! Yesterday lords over thousands, to-day fallen into 
this calamity.” 1 
The bodies of the unfortunate Jahandar Shah and of his wazir 
were thrown down on the sandy waste before the Dihll gate of the 
palace. Asad Khan’s family, taking with them nothing but the clothes 
they had on, were removed in palkis from their house to one known 
as the peshkhana, of Khan Jahan where they were kept under surveil¬ 
lance ; and Taqarrub Khan, the new Khansaman or Lord Steward, brought 
in two elephants loaded with the jewels and jewelled vessels from 1 
Asad Khan’s house, and also sixty-two of his horses. The fallen vice¬ 
gerent himself had been forced to appear in the triumphal procession 
into Dihli, seated in a palki and accompanied by a few men on foot, 
all that was left of his former grandeur. At the Akbarabadi mosque 
he was halted, and there he sat in his palki unheeded for four or five 
hours, until Farrukhsiyar ordered his removal with his women to the 
office rooms of the Dlwan above referred to. Some temporary screens 
were put up, and there he and his family sought shelter. Food was, 
sent to them at night by Husain ‘All Khan. 8 
It was not till the 19th (14th February, 1713), that Arslan Khan re¬ 
ceived orders to bury the bodies of the murdered Jahandar Shah and 
Zu-l-fiqar Khan. The prince was laid in the vault of the emperor 
Humayun’s tomb, at the side of other members of the family. Zu-l- 
fiqar Khan’s remains were interred close to the shrine of Shaikh 
‘Ata-ullah, which is situated at the gateway of the same tomb. Zu-l- 
fiqar Khan was a little over fifty-nine (lunar) years of age at the time of 
his death; he left no sons. No memorial was erected over him for 
several years. At length some of his eunuchs, who had been trans¬ 
ferred to Sayyid Husain ‘Ali Khan, mentioned this fact to their new 
master. The Sayyid ordered a tomb to be built, and on a tablet 
were inscribed the following lines, composed by Asad Khan :— 
J-jy )j J— 
1 MIrza Mhd., 168, Xjad, 123, Khushhal Cand, 395-6. The Dib.ll gate is on the 
south side of the city, it is the one nearest the Jumna. MIrza Muhammad and 
his brother witnessed the entry into Dihll from the roof of the Akbarabadi mosque, 
which is in the Faiz Bazar, the street running north and south from the Dihll gate 
of the city to the Dihll gate of the fort. (Asdru-8-§anddtd, 70, Carr Stephen, 246, 
248). Khushhal Cand, also, was one of the onlookers and “ into the skirt of this 
“humble one, too, fell a silver rose, weighing seven mashas.” 
8 Kamwar Khan, 131, Ijad, 124-6, Khafi Khan, II, 734, B. M. No. 1690, fol. 
162-6. 
