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W. Irvine— The Later Mu ak als. 
[No. 4, 
Rajputs raged inwardly, and fiercely laid liand on sword or dagger 
But who can fight a whole people? At length, several spoon-sellers 
and bazar touts having been killed by the Rathors, the habit of abusing 
them was abandoned. 1 
Section 41. —The Conduct of the Saytads Considered. 
On few subjects does there seem to have been such violently con¬ 
tradictory views expressed as upon the conduct of the Sayyads at this 
juncture. Writers who are themselves Sayyads and Shi‘as defend 
their action as the only course that could have been pursued. But, as 
the two brothers soon fell from power and lost their lives, the partizans 
of their rivals and successors have not hesitated to denounce them, and 
hold them up to the execration of mankind. The two extremes are 
even embodied by rival poets in chronograms composed for the occa¬ 
sion. Mirza ‘Abdul Qadir, Bedil , wrote : 
Didst thou see what they did to the mighty king ? 2 * * S * * 
A hundred harsh and cruel deeds they did, unthinking: 
I asked Wisdom for the date. She answered : 
“ The Sayyads behaved disloyally to their king.” 
To this Mir ‘Azmat-ullah, Bilgrami, Bekhabar , using the same 
form and rhymes, replied : 
To the infirm monarch they did what they ought, 
What a physician should do, that they did ; 
By light of Wisdom’s lamp this date was prescribed: 
“ The Sayyads treated him as the case required.” 8 
It is impossible, I think, to accept to the full either conclusion. To 
none but extreme believers in the divinity that doth hedge a king, will 
it seem wrong to have removed from power such a worthless thing as 
Farrukhslyar. But the way of doing what had become almost a neces¬ 
sity was unduly harsh, too utterly regardless of the personal dignity of 
the fallen monarch. Blinding a deposed king was the fixed usage ; for 
1 Muhammad Qasim, 262. 
2 Dldi kih cah ba shah-i-girdmi kardand, 
Sad jor-o-jafa zi rah-i-Jchami kardand ; 
Tdrtkh cu az Khirad ba-justam, farmud : 
“ Sadat ba-iie namak-harami kardand.” (1131) 
S Ba shdh-i-sakim an cah shdyad kardand, 
Az dast-i-hjakim har cah bayad kardand; 
Ba qirdt-i-Khirad nuskhah-i-tarikh navisht: 
“ Sadat dawa-sh an cah bayad kardand (1131) 
