In the year 773 H. (1371-72 A.D.) afar Khān died and the control of that province was confirmed to his son.*
Then in the year 776 H. (1374-75 A.D.) an event distressing to
the people (death) happened to Fatḥ Khān; and in this year
Shamsu-d-Dīn Dāmaghāni having obtained the yellow girdle and
the Chanḍol of silver, that is to say, the palanquin of honour, was
appointed governor of Gujrāt in place of afar Khān; and since
he had boasted when accepting the post on his departure, that he
would send to the Court every year a hundred splendid elephants,
two hundred Arab horses, and four hundred slaves, Muqaddam-
And in the year 778 H. (1376-77 A.D.) the Amīrs of hundreds* of Gujrāt put him to death and sent his head to the Court; thus that rebellion was quelled, and thereafter Gujrāt was put under the control of Farḥatu-l-Mulk, otherwise known as Malik Mufarriḥ Sulānī.*
And in the year 779 H. (1377-78 A.D.) he marched towards Itāwa and Akchak* and having sent the Rāis of these districts with their families to Dihlī, built many fortresses on these frontiers; then having left Fīrozpūr and Batlāhī,* in charge of the son of Malik Tāju-d-Dīn, and having given Akchak to Malik Afghān returned to Dihlī. In this year also Malik Niāmu-d-Dīn the ruler of Oudh, who was in attendance on the Sulān, died, and the governorship of that province devolved upon Malik Ṣaifu-d-Dīn his eldest son.
In the year 781 H. (1379 A.D.) having gone*
to Sāmāna and
passing through Shāhābād and Ambāla, he came to the country
at the foot of Sintūr hills,*
and receiving many presents from
the Rāis and Governors and Commissioners, arrived at the capital
and summoning Maliku-sh-Sharq Marwān-i-Daulat, who held the
title of Nuṣrat Khān,*
from the district of Karra and Mahoba,
appointed him to the Multān district,*
with a view to close the
door to Mughul intrigues: he then confirmed Karra and*
Mahoba
together with all their dependencies upon the son of Maliku-sh-
And in the year 782 H. (1380 A.D) he raised the standard for an expedition with the intention of taking vengeance on the Khūkhar Rāi Chief of Kaithar,* who had invited and put to death by 252. treachery both Saiyyid Muḥammad and Saiyyid ‘Alāu-d-Dīn his brother,* who were Governors of Badāon. The rebellious Khūkhar* fled towards the hills of Kumāon, accordingly after laying waste and plundering the whole of his country, he left Malik Khiāb the Afghān in the country of Sambhal* to deal with the rebellion of Khūkhar, and turned back after having made over Badāon to Malik Qabūl; Qabūlpūra which at present is a quarter of Badāon lying outside the fort is called after his name; also he used to come every year for the purpose of sport and lay utterly waste the Kaithal* country.
And in the year 787 H. he built a fortified town in a place called Babūlī* which is seven krohs from Badāon and is better known as Mawās,* and gave it the name* of Fīrūzpūr, and since in later times no other building was ever erected by the Sulān it became commonly known as Ākhirīnpūr.* Now-a-days although not a trace of that building remains, still from the old bricks and the foundations and general lie of that high ground it is evident that once upon a time there was a building on that site.* The age of the Sulān was now nearly ninety years, and how truly had these verses come to pass—
When thou reachest eighty or ninety years
Great is the vexation thou reapest from the world;
And going further when thou reachest the hundredth stage
Death will then be to thee a form of life.
Khān-i-Jahān*
the Vazīr who had obtained great influence in the
affairs of the state, and was in a position to overthrow those who
opposed his schemes of self-aggrandisement, at a hint from the
Sulān destroyed one party and put to death another, and making
253. accusations of conspiracy against Shāhzāda Muḥammad Khān and
some of the other Maliks who were hand in glove with him, by this
means turned the Sulān against him, and gave him a fixed idea*
that
this confederacy had for their object to raise the Shāhzāda to the
throne; accordingly the Sulān set his heart upon the defeat and
extinction of those Amīrs. The Shāhzāda, however, after that he had
been in terror for some days and had omitted to pay his respects
to the Sulān, one day in private*
came into the Sulān's presence
and loyally told him the whole truth, and informed him also of
the treacherous designs of Khān-i-Jahān, so that the tables were
turned.*
Obtaining carte blanche from the Sulān to defeat
and exterminate Khān-i-Jahān, and having brought over to his
side*
the Fīrūzī Amīrs and the mass of the people, in the month
of Rajab 789 H. (1387 A.D.) he started with a strong force to
attack Khān-i-Jahān, and having wounded him plundered his
house and family. Khān-i-Jahān fled*
with a few followers
towards Mīwāt, and took refuge there with one Kūkā a Zamīndār;*
and the Shāhzāda destroyed certain of the Amīrs who had been
well-disposed to Khān-i-Jahān. Subsequently to this the Shāh-