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camp, and went their way. Sultan Muhammad also, with those 
who were of his immediate followers, fled to Deogir, and his army 
was disheartened, and began to disperse. But while Sultan Mu¬ 
hammad was yet on the way to Deogir, there met him messengers 
from the city bringing with them the royal mandates, and news of 
the safety of the king. Then the nobles of ’ Alauddin, who with one 
consent had forsaken Sultan Muhammad, were divided amongst 
themselves, and each man did what seemed right to him, and their 
footmen and their servants fled from them, and their horses and 
army fell into the hands of the Hindus. But Sultan Muhammad 
arrived in safety at Deogir, and there he gathered to him his 
army. Malik Tamar with certain of his horsemen fled, and went 
into the Hindu country and there died. Malik Takin who was 
also a noble of Audh, the Hindus slew, and sent his skin to Sultan 
Muhammad to Deogir; and Malik Mai Afghan and ’Abid the 
poet and the other conspirators they bound, and sent them to Sul¬ 
tan Muhammad to Deogir, but he sent them alive to his father. 
Now it had come to pass that already the wives and children of 
those rebellious nobles had been seized; and Sultan Ghiasuddin 
gave a show in the plain of public entertainment, and there they 
hung up ’Abid the poet, and Kafiir, keeper of the seals, and the 
other conspirators. Certain others also, with their women and chil¬ 
dren, they cast beneath the feet of elephants, and the day was pass¬ 
ed in the execution of those men, so that those who saw it were 
filled with fear. And because of the punishment with which Sultan 
Tughluq Shah had punished them, and in that he had cast many 
women and children to the elephants, the whole city was mightily 
afraid. 
The second expedition op Sultan Muhammad against Arankal. 
After the space of four months, Sultan Ghiasuddin gave to Sul¬ 
tan Muhammad a large army, and appointed him other soldiers, 
and sent him to Arankal, and again Sultan Muhammad arrived in 
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the country of Taling, and took the fort of Badar: and the captain 
of the fort fell into his hands ; and from thence he went to Arankal, 
and laid siege to the earthen fortress of that place. And after some 
