198 Translations from the Tarikh i Firuzshali'i. [No. 3, 
ficent paraphernalia of tho reception, and Sultan Mu’izz-uddin sat 
enthroned, and held high Court. Sultan Nagir-uddin entered by 
the lobby, and passed within the screen, and bowed his head to 
the ground in the place of obeisance, and thrice went through the 
ceremony of kissing the earth before the emperor. When he ap¬ 
proached the throne, Sultan Mu’izz-uddin could no longer endure 
the spectacle of his father’s humiliation. Discarding his imperial 
pride, he came down from the throne, and fell at his father’s feet. 
In his father’s presence, the arrogance of royalty was forgotten. 
Gentler and softer feelings vibrated in the breasts of both. Father 
and son in a transport of affection melted into tears, and fell into 
each other’s arms ; and the father pressed his lips to his son’s eyes, 
and kissed his cheeks, and the son, weeping, rubbed his eyes upon 
his father’s feet. Those who were present and witnessed this out¬ 
burst of tenderness raised a clamour of sympathy. 
When after a while, calm was in some measure restored, the 
father took the son’s hand, and handed him up to the throne, 
thinking to remain standing before him. But the son stepped 
down again, and caught the father’s hand, and brought him up on 
the dais, and seated him on his right hand, and himself turned 
aside his face and sat in an attitude of humility before him. 
Then with due ceremony several trays of gold and silver dinars, 
and vessels full of gold and silver tangas were showered over the 
heads of parent and child ; and those who stood near the throne 
gathered up the dinars and tangas; and the trays and coffers used 
in the ceremony were flung to those who stood farther off; and the 
bards broke forth into strains of panegyric, and the melodious 
minstrels tuned their melodies, and the gold sticks and the mace- 
bearers and the footmen lifted up their voices, and the crowd 
scrambled for the scattered coins. 
Whilst the attendants of the Court were thus variously engaged, 
father and son were so deeply affected by their interview, that the 
water coursed from their eyes, and the vehemence of their emotions 
so transported them, as to deprive them of the power of speech. 
At last the general entertainment came to an end. Father and 
son rose, and on the breaking up of the court, retired into a pri¬ 
vate apartment where they sat awhile conversing. Then the Sultan 
