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Translations from the Tdrilch i FiruzshdM. 
[No. 3, 
Death oe Sultan Ghiasuddin Tughluq Shah after he had ar¬ 
rived in the neighbourhood of Tughluqabad, and had alighted 
UNDER THE ROOF OF A PAVILION ; A KING BY WHOSE DEATH THE 
WORLD WAS DARKENED, AND THROWN INTO DISTRESS AND CONFUSION, 
Now when Sultan Muhammad heard that Sultan Tughluq Shah 
was hastening to his capital of Tughluqabad, and had already- 
arrived in its neighbourhood, he ordered that they should erect a 
small building about eight miles from Tughluqabad, by Afghanpiir, 
so that the king might alight, and pass the night therein, and 
proceed in the morning with his royal retinue to Tughluq¬ 
abad, where also coloured canopies were erected, and the drums 
beaten. So Sultan Ghiasuddin, at the hour of the second prayer, 
arrived at the pavilion which had been newly erected, and 
alighted there, and Sultan Muhammad, with the princes and the 
nobles, met his father, and kissed his feet. Then Sultan Tughluq 
Shah called for food, and after that he had eaten it, and the 
princes and the chiefs came out for the cleansing of hands, there 
fell upon the earth the lightning of the calamity of heaven, and 
the roof of the pavilion, under which the king was sitting, fell 
suddenly upon him ; and he, with six or seven others, was buried 
under it, and he died ; and so great a conqueror and captain, whom 
the world could not contain, lies buried in twelve feet of earth— 
“ Who is able to see, Oh eye of blind fate! 
“ Two worlds in twelve feet of the grave ?” 
And from the death of Sultan Tughluq Shah, the order of the 
world was changed into disorder— 
“ That kingdom of Egypt, which thou sawest, is no more, 
“ And that Nile of Mercy, which thou heardst of, was a mirage ; 
“ The Form of Safety and the Spirit of Security 
“ Are veiled from the gaze of spectators. 
“ Calamity covered the heavens with a garment: 
“ The covering of darkness was as a veil to the firmament.” 
How wiser are they who have resigned this unstable world, and 
turned from it their faces, because of its inconstancy and its 
oppression ; and have satisfied themselves with the bread and the 
