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1871 .] The reign of Mu'izz-uddin. 
Nacir-uddin returned, and crossing tlie river came into his own 
camp. 
Part II. —The Interview between Stjlta'n Na'sir-tjddin and 
Sxjlta'n Mtj’izz-tjddin. 
Prom time to time the father sent to his son rare gifts and deli¬ 
cate fruits, and the son to the father presents of sweetmeats and 
wines and desserts of princely magnificence. On the second day 
of their meeting the Emperor Mu’izz-uddin said—“ My empire is 
my father’s, and there is no rancour or antagonism between us, 
let the orders for one army be the orders for both, and let the 
men of either side and their relatives and friends meet together, 
and go to and fro, and visit each other in mutual confidence, and 
let the markets be open to both armies alike.” A few days after¬ 
wards on the approach of the day of parting, a herald mounted on 
an elephant proclaimed an order to both armies, forbidding any 
soldier of the army of Dihli to remain without permission in the 
borders of Lak’hnauti, and prohibiting the men of LakTmauti from 
coming into the territory of Dihli. Then for some days in succes¬ 
sion the Emperor Naxjir-uddin came to his son and both Emperors 
sat and held their court together, and while they took their plea¬ 
sure they spoke together, and drank to the memory of great men 
and their deeds, counting the happiness of present intercourse too 
dear for any mention of parting, a word inauspicious as death, to 
be suffered to cross their lips. One day, while the hours sped thus 
happily, the Emperor Nacir-uddin told how his father, the Emperor 
Balban had brought him up, and wept copiously, and said to his 
son—“When I and my elder brother had acquired the first rudi¬ 
ments of speaking and writing under the care of a skilful scribe, 
our tutors asked the Emperor what instruction in grammar and 
syntax and divinity was next to be given to the princes, what 
were his Majesty’s commands, and what master should instruct us ? 
He said—‘ Let them give the scribe a robe and a present and let 
him go, and let learned clerks and professors teach my sons the 
book of the courtesies of Emperors and the compilation of the acts 
of the Emperors which has been continued from (the caliphs of) 
