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the house of Taimur to take his place. But a prince once deprived of 
eyesight could not be raised to the throne. The Emperor resolved, 
therefore, to deprive of their eyesight the more prominent and more 
energetic of the many scions of the house of Taimur held in captivity 
in the palace. On the 6th Mu^iarrara 1126 H. (21st January, 
1714), three of the princes, A‘zzu-d-din, eldest son of Jahandar 
Shah, ’Ala Tabar, 1 son of A‘zam Shah, and Farrukhsiyar’s own younger 
brother, Humayun Bakht (then only ten or twelve years old), were 
removed from the palace to the prison at the Tirpoliyah or Triple gate. 
It was the place where Jahandar Shah’s life had been taken, and where 
in a few years’ time Farrukhsiyar himself was to suffer the same fate. 
A needle was passed through the eyes of the three princes, and they 
were thus rendered incapable of ever becoming rivals for the throne. 
Mir Jumlah is credited with having been the man who urged Farrukh¬ 
siyar to carry out this harsh act. 8 
Finally, on the 2nd RabI’ II, 1126 H. (16th April, 1714), the 
Qalmaq woman, Shadman, entitled Rae Man, a servant in the palace, 
was made over to Sarbarah Khan, thekotwal or Chief of the Police, and 
her head was cut off at the Chabutrah , 3 or central police-station. Her 
crime was that, during the reign of Jahandar Shah, one of her relatives 
had drawn his sword on Mir Jumlah. Rae Man is the woman who gave 
the alarm when an attempt was made to assassinate Jahandar Shah ; 4 
she bravely attacked the assailants and slew one of them with her own 
hand. For this good service she had received the titles of Raza Baha¬ 
dur, Rustam-i-Hind, and the rank of 5,000 zat. h 
Although not mentioned in the general histories, the humoristic 
poet, Sayyad Muhammad Ja’far of Narnol, poetically Zatali, is said to 
have been one of the victims. His crime is said to have been a satirical 
1 Wald Tabar in Khafi Khan. 11., 740. 
3 A chronogram was made for it : 
§fjidh-i- l dlam, ba aghwde-i-shaydtin . 
Kashldah mil dar cashm-i-salatln (1126 H). 
“ The lord of the world, at the instigation of devils, 
Passed a needle through the eyes of the pi'inces.” 
Warid, 1506, Kamwar Khan, p, 144, ‘Kiafi Khan II, 740. 
S Chabutrah means a platform of earth or masonry raised slightly above the 
surface of the ground. This name was given to the office of the head police 
officer of Dihll; it was situated in the Chandni Cauk, the main street leading from 
the Lahor gate of the city to the Lahor gate of the citadel. 
4 See Journal, Vol. LXY (1896), p. 147. 
* Kamwar Khan, 146, Mirza Muhammad, 187. 
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