1871.] 
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Translations from the Tarihh i Firuzshdhi. 
[Continued from Journal for 1870, p. 51.] 
The Reign of Mu’izz-tjddin .—By P. Whalley, Esq., C. S. 
Praise be to God, the Master of the learned, and benediction on 
his prophet Muhammad, and a thousand salutations to all his 
descendants. Invoking these blessings I, the weak Zia i Barani 
the compiler of the history of Ffruz Shah, continue my narrative 
as follows : In the reign of the emperor Mu’izz-uddin Kaiqubad, 
grandson of the Emperor Balban, I was a mere child, and what I 
have set down in this history of the events and results of his rule, 
I heard from my father, Muayyid-ul-Mulk, and my tutors who were 
the most learned men of the age. From them I have heard that 
in the months of the year 685, A. II., Sultan Mu’izz-uddin Kaiqu¬ 
bad, son of Bagliarra Khan, and grandson of the emperor Balban, 
succeeded the latter and was established on the throne of Dihlf 
at the age of seventeen or eighteen years. This emperor Mu’izz- 
uddin was a prince of generous actions and noble qualities ; he 
had a well-ordered temper, a refined nature, and great comeliness 
of person, but the desires of self-indulgence and a longing to gratify 
youthful appetites, and a taste for wealth and luxury had carried 
their assault into his breast. From infancy up to the day he 
succeeded to the throne he had been trained under the eye of his 
grandfather, Balban, and so many rigorous guardians were 
appointed to look after him, that he had no chance of enjoyment, 
and no opportunity of gratifying his caprices. In their fear of the 
emperor Balban, his guardians never suffered him to cast a glance 
on a pretty face, or to taste a cup of wine. Night and day stern- 
tempered preceptors were set over him, who laboured to polish and 
refine him. There were professors who instructed him in writing, 
and science, and deportment, and others who taught him to shoot, 
and to play at ball, and to hurl the javelin, and they never allowed 
him to offend against propriety, or to be guilty of an ill-bred action 
or to speak an uncourteous word. When suddenly and unexpect¬ 
edly and without reference to his wishes he was happily established 
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