Rujub 30.
A. H. 721.
August 22.
A. D. 1321.

row fled, with a few of his friends, towards Jeelput. On the way he was deserted by most of his attendants, and obliged to conceal himself in a tomb, from whence he was dragged the next day, and ordered to be put to death, together with his brother, who was taken in a neighbouring garden.

Shaban 1.
A. H. 721.
August 23.
A. D. 1321. The day after this action, being the 1st of Shaban, 721, the nobles and ma­gistrates of the city came to pay their respects to the victor, and presented him with the keys of the city. He mounted his horse, and entered Dehly in triumph. When he came in sight of the palace of Huzar-minar (Thousand Min­arets), he wept bitterly, crying with a loud voice, “O ye subjects of this great empire, I am no “more than one of you, who unsheathed my “sword to deliver you from oppression, and rid “the world of a monster. My endeavours, by the “blessing of God, have been crowned with suc-“cess. If, therefore, any member of the royal “line remain, let him be brought, that justice may “be done, and that we, his servants, may prostrate “ourselves before his throne. But if none of the “race of kings have escaped the bloody hands of “tyranny and usurpation, let the most worthy of “the nobility be elected among you, and I swear “to abide by your choice.”

The people cried out with one voice, that none of the princes were now alive; that as he had shielded them from the vengeance of the Moguls, and delivered them from the rage of a tyrant, none was so worthy to reign. Then laying hold on him, the populace raised him up, and having placed him upon the throne, hailed him as Shah Jehan (the King of the Universe), but he assumed the more modest title of Gheias-ood-Deen. — The reign of Khoosrow lasted only five months.