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W. Irvine —The Later Mu ah ah. 
the minister to recognise the limits of that power, and not make appoint¬ 
ments to high office without sanction. A compromise was at last arrived 
at; Lutfullah Khan retained the Diwanl and Afzal Khan, the gadarat 
with the titles of Sadr Jahan. Chhahilah Ram was consoled with 
the Government of Agrah . l * 
Owing to the violent change of government, there were naturally 
many confiscated mansions at the disposal of the crown. Two of these 
with their contents were conferred on Qutb-ul-Mulk and his brother. 
One known as Ja‘far Khan’s, which Kokaltash Khan, Khan Jahan, had 
held, was given to Qutb-ul-Mulk; and another called Shaistah Khan’s, 
recently in the possession of Zu’lfiqar Khan, was made over to Husaiu 
’All Khan. As soon as the distribution had been made, Farrukhsivar’s 
private circle of friends poured into his ear suggestions that these 
two mansions contained untold treasures, the accumulated wealth of 
many generations. In them was stored, they said, the property which 
had belonged to the four sons of Bahadur Shah, and the whole revenues 
of Hindustan for a year past. All this had now fallen into the pos¬ 
session of the two Sayyads. On the other hand, the imperial treasury 
had been emptied and the palace denuded of everything to pay Jalian- 
dar Shah’s soldiers. 8 
Superstition was even more powerfully brought into play. It was 
a superstitious country and a superstitious age ; and Farrukhsiyar was 
as much subject to these influences as any of his contemporaries. A 
prophesy had been made, which met with the widest acceptance, that 
after Bahadur Shah’s death his youngest descendant would reign. He 
would, in his turn, be followed by a Sayyad. Talk about this became 
so common that soon everyone had heard it. Of course, it was at once 
urged on the Emperor that the Sayyad who was to reign could be no 
other than one of the two brothers. Acting on the principle that 
dropping water wears away a stone, 3 they repeated this story over and 
over again to Farrukhsiyar, till it had the effect of making him openly 
show ill-feeling to the two Sayyad brothers. 4 
The quarrel had proceeded so far by the beginning of Rabi ‘I. 
(27th March 1713), that Qutb-ul-Mulk ceased to attend the daily audi¬ 
ence, an infallible sign that a noble had a grievance or was out of 
1 Mlid. QSsitn, 171. Afzal Khan died at Dihli in the end of Rabi ‘II. or early 
in JamadI I, 1138 H. (January 1726), Rank 6000— T-i-Mh,dt. } Khafi Khan II, 729, 
731. 
" 8 Kamwar Khan, 132, Warid, 149a. 
i The Persian saying is Hezam kashdn, ’alam soz, “ Go on gathering firewood, 
and you oan burn the world.” 
4 Warid, 149a. 
