At length, by a thousand wiles and artifices, Mullik Kafoor accomplished his purpose, and pre­vailed on the King to imprison his two sons, (Khizr Khan and Shady Khan) in the fort of Gualiar, and their mother in the old fort of Dehly. He at the same time procured an order to seize Aluf Khan, whom he unjustly put to death. Aluf Khan's brother, Nizam Khan, Soobadar of Jalwur, was also assassinated by Kumal Khan, who suc­ceeded to his office. Thus far the schemes of Mullik Kafoor succeeded. At this time, also, the flames of universal insurrection, which had long been smothered, began to burst forth, and were first apparent in Guzerat, which rose into insurrection. To suppress this rebellion, Kumal Khan was sent thither, but the adherents of the late Aluf Khan de­feated him with great slaughter. Kumal Khan was taken prisoner, and suffered a cruel death. Mean­while the rajpoots of Chittoor threw the Maho-medan officers over the walls, and asserted their independence, while Hurpal Dew, the son-in-law of Ram Dew, stirred up the Deccan to arms, and expelled a number of the Mahomedan garrisons.

On receiving these accounts, the King bit his own flesh with fury. His grief and rage only tended to increase his disorder, which seemed to resist the power of medicine; and on the evening of

Shuval 6.
A. H. 716.
Dec. 19.
A. D. 1316.

the 6th of Shuval, in the year 716, he gave up the ghost, but not without sus­picion of being poisoned by the villain whom he had raised from the dust to power. Alla-ood-Deen Khiljy reigned 20 years and some months. The household servants of this monarch amounted to 17,000, including artificers, for whom he always found employment. His wealth and power were never equalled by any prince who sat before him on the throne of Hin-doostan, and they surpassed by far the riches accu­mulated in the ten campaigns of Mahmood Ghiz-nevy, all of which were left for others to enjoy.