AN ACCOUNT OF JAM SEKUNDER, THE SON OF JAM TUGHLUG SHAH.

When he sat in the place of his father, he was a young man. The Hakeems of Sehwistan and Bukkur, becoming powerful in their respective districts, ceased placing the orders of government on their heads, and began to quarrel with each other. Jam Sekunder, leaving Tatta, went towards Bukkur. He had got as far as Nusurpoor, when one named Moobaruk, who in the time of Jam Tughlug was the com­mander of 2,000 men, started up, and arriving at Tatta, proclaimed himself Jam Moobaruk, and seated himself on the throne of the government. But he had not the concurrence of the people of the city; on this account his rule did not extend beyond three days, inasmuch as the nobles of Tatta turned him out, and sent to call Jam Sekunder. When this news reached him, he made peaceable arrangements with those Hakeems, and returned to Tatta.

One year and a half after this, he took the apparatus of his life from the ways of this perishable world, to the ample house of eternity.