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tliat leads to that country, and their arms and horses were taken 
away. Also on the second day they seized Khusrau Khan in 
the garden, and bringing him thence they slew him. It came 
to pass, too, that during the night which Ghazi Malik spent 
at Indpat, many of the chiefs and nobles and officers of the city 
came and did him obeisance, and they brought to him the keys of 
the castle and of the gates. 
And on the second day after his victory Ghazi Malik depart¬ 
ed from Indpat, he and his nobles, his chieftains and his great 
men, and alighted with a great following at the Castle, and 
in the presence of all the principal men of the kingdom took 
his seat in the Palace of the Thousand Pillars. Then, when he 
had sat down, all the nobles of the court began to lament the fate 
of Sultan Qutbuddin, and of the other sons of Sultan ’Alauddin, who 
had been their former masters ; and bewailed with much lamenta¬ 
tion the calamity that had befallen them; offering also thanks 
to God for the vengeance taken upon the Parwaris and Hindus, 
and because life was restored to Islam and to all Musalmans, 
and because of the slaughter of the infidel. And after they had 
made an end, Ghazi Malik spoke with a loud voice before them 
all, and said: “I also am one of those who am indebted 
to the favour of Sultan ’Alauddin and Sultan Qutbuddin; and 
because that loyalty is in me, I have stood up, and have drawn my 
sword upon the enemies and murderers of my benefactors; and as 
far as was within me, have taken vengeance upon them. And now 
for this are ye all, followers of Malik ’Alauddin and Qutbuddin, 
here assembled ; that, if one of the family of our masters remain, 
ye should bring him forward at this time ; and I will place him 
upon the throne ; and will gird up my loins before the son of my 
master, and will do him homage. But if the enemy have 
utterly destroyed the family of ’Alauddin and Qutbuddin, then are 
ye, the chiefs of either House, here at this time now gathered 
together. Choose ye whom ye will, and whomsoever ye think 
fit for the royal dignity, him place upon the throne ; and I also 
will do obeisance. For inasmuch as I drew the sword, I drew it 
not for myself, but that I might exact vengeance for the blood of 
my masters. I have not come with all this my power to take for 
