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Translations from the Tarikh i Firuzshalii . 
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moment of intoxication, obtained from the Emperor permission to 
put this noble prince to death. lie deputed some persons from the 
Court, and they brought Ivai IOiusrau to meet his fate in the town 
of Rolitak. The result of his death was, that all Balban’s chiefs 
who had become courtiers and counsellors in the Court of Mu’izz- 
uddin conceived a dread of malik Nizam-uddm. The splendour 
and dignity of the maliks was broken, they all alike became the 
victims of terror, and Nizam-uddm triumphed. He brought for¬ 
ward some small matter as a pretext for a charge against Khwajah 
Khatir, Mu’izz-uddin’s vazir, and by his orders the vazir was seated 
on an ass, and carried about in mourning procession through the 
whole city. This proceeding spread the awe in which Nizam-uddm 
was held more widely than ever in the breasts of all the aristocrats 
of birth and letters. He meanwhile set himself vigorously to work 
to put down the chiefs and heads of families, and told the Emperor 
in private, that “ the new converts among the nobles, who were in 
office, and employed about the imperial person, had formed a 
cabal. The Emperor had been unwise in making them his 
friends and counsellors. They intended treachery to him, and 
would suddenly burst into the palace, and kill him and seize the 
empire.” The Mughul chiefs too were holding meetings in their 
private houses, and plotting together. They were all of one race, 
heads of a numerous clientele, combined for mutual support, and 
only waiting an opportunity for a sudden outbreak.” Only a few 
days were allowed to elapse after this discourse on their insurrec¬ 
tionary spirit, when he again pressed the matter on the emperor, and 
obtained leave to capture and destroy them. He caused the whole 
party to be seized on the same day in the palace, and had the 
majority of them put to death, and threw their bodies into the 
stream, and caused their household property to be pillaged. Some 
sons of the confederates of Balkan, of noble malik families, united 
to the massacred chiefs by ties of blood and familiar intercourse, he 
put under arrest and conveyed to distant fortresses. The old in¬ 
fluential families he uprooted and dispersed. He pursued the 
same policy with Malik Skahak Amir of Multan and Malik Tozaki. 
They held assigned tenures with the duty of mustering the provin¬ 
cial levies, and had retained large power and high state since the 
