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the two Sayyads and offered himself to carry them into execution. 
Since Farrukhsiyar looked with apprehension upon everything, Mu^am- 
med Murad boldly counselled him to take heart and not to he afraid. 
“ Such fears,” he said, “ amount to a defect: you are Emperor: no one 
has the strength to oppose you : you should free your heart of dread, 
and issue whatever orders you may please.” 1 
Another hunting expedition was planned. The Emperor moved to 
the mansion at Khizrabad 2 on the 29th Zu,l Hijjah (3rd Dec., 1717) 
and remained there for two or three weeks. It was the common talk 
of the town that Qutb-ul-mulk would be seized, a task which the Em¬ 
peror’s advisers had persuaded him could be easily accomplished. Qutb- 
ul-mulk, too, left his house with a large force of men, and camped out¬ 
side the town near Kilukahri, 3 by this move allaying the rumours and 
causing the conspirators to stay their hand. At night the Emperor 
sent him trays of fruit and food. Next day (23rd Dec., 1717), the 
advance tents were moved towards Palam. Muhammad Murad in¬ 
creased in favour. The following march (27th Muharram, 1130, 30th 
Dec., 1717) was to Masjid-i-Moth. Here the new appointments were 
made, by which Muhammad Murad was advanced to second Mir 
Tozah. On the second Safar (4th Jan., 1718) they reached Palam, on 
the 17th they moved to Sadipur, nnd on the 29th back to Agharabad 
near the city. Nothing had been effected. 4 
Instead of returning to the palace the Emperor moved out from 
1 Kamwar Khan, 175, Mirza Muhammad, 337. 
8 Khizrabad is on the Jamnah bank, about five miles south of the Dihli gate of 
Shahjalianabad, see Carr Stephen, map, page 1. Asdr-us-sanddid chap. Ill, p. 25, says 
it was a town built on the river bank by Khizr Khan in 861 H. (1418) A. D.). There 
is no trace now of any fort; possibly the site of it was that now known as Khizrabad- 
village. 
3 Kilukahri is probably the site of the palace built on the Jamnah bank by Mu'izz- 
ud-din, Kaikobad, (1286-1288), H. M. Elliot, “ Bibliographical Index,” 284, and Am 
II., 279. The Ain says that Humayuu’s tomb is on this site, but the village itself is 
about lj miles S.E. of the tomb. 
* Kamwar Khan, 179. Palam is iu the Dihll district, 11 miles S.W, of the city : 
it lies about 10 miles W. of Mothki masjid. (Indian Atlas, Sheet 49 N.E.) Masjid- 
i-Moth, C. Stephen, plate opposite p. 1, is 5| miles S.W. of the Dihll gate of the 
city, id. 166, and was built in 894 H. (1488). The tradition is that a man picked up 
a grain of moth , sowed it, and in time built this mosque from the produce. Sadi¬ 
pur, not traced; there is a Madipur on Sheet 49 N.E. of the Indian Atlas. This lies 
half-way between Palam and Badli (Agharabad). I can find no Sadipur in that 
direction ; but there is a Sadipur near the ‘Idgah, west of the city, see Constable’s 
‘‘ Hand Atlas,” Plate 47. Agharabad is N. of the city and the same as Shalihmar 
close to Sarae Badli, Mirza Muhammad, 331, says the camp was for three months 
