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the fallen man’s companions and confidants. It was pitiful to see this 
strong man, perhaps the handsomest and most powerfully-built of 
Babar’s race that had ever occupied the throne, dragged bareheaded 
and barefooted, subjected at every moment to blows and the vilest 
abuse, into the Diwan-i-khas to the presence of Qutb-ul-mulk. The 
Nawab opened his pen box, took out a needle used by him for applying 
collyrium ( surmaJi ) to his eyes, and giving it to one of the men, ordered 
them to throw down their prisoner and blind him. Whatever was 
found in the female apartments and storehouses, or on the people of the 
harem—cash, clothes, gold, silver and copper vessels, ornaments and 
jewels—all was taken, nay, even the slave girls and the concubines were 
appropriated. 1 
After the needle had been passed through his eyes, Farrukhsiyar 
was imprisoned in the room over the Tirpoliya, or triple gate within the 
fortress. It was the place to which common malefactors were sent, and 
had already witnessed the death of Jahandar Shah seven years before. 
It was a bare, dark, unfurnished hole, containing nothing but a bowl for 
food, a pot of water for ablutions, and a vessel with some drinking 
water. On reaching it he is reported to have quoted the lines : 
“ Like a cypress in decay, 
Such a king in such slavery.” 2 
Section 40. —Death of Farrukhsiyar. 
Although it involves a slight break in the exact chronological 
order, it seems better to carry on Farrukhsiyar’s story to his cruel and 
dishonoured eud. The captivity he was held in appears to have been 
unnecessarily strict, and many anecdotes connected with it have been 
handed down. A few days after his accession, the new emperor, Rafi‘- 
ud-darajat, sent a eunuch to inquire about his predecessor’s condition. 
Farrukhsiyar invoked a blessing on his head, and sent back the lines— 
Be not taken by the gardener’s deceit, 0 nightingale, 
Ere this I, too, had my nest in this garden. 8 
1 On this occasion Warid has the following lines:— 
Qddird 
Murd! qudrat til dan, harchih Jchwahi an Tcuni , 
Murdah rd jan ham tu bafchshi , zindah rd murdan Tcuni. 
Harth-i-shdhdn tu sitdni t l ajiz-i-yaTc nan Tcuni. 
2 Gunin saw rd dar sar-afgandagi, 
Cunin shdh rd dar cunin bandagi. Mirza Muhammad, 461 ; Khafl Khan, 
II, 814. 
8 Az fareb-i-b dyh bdn gh diil ma-bdsh , ai i andalib : 
