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131 grew discontented and rebelled, lie punished them with- out ruth. To him what seemed good must be done at once, and when it proved impossible or unsuccessful, his disappointment reached the verge of frenzy, and he wreaked his wrath indiscriminately upon the unhappy offenders who could not keep pace with his imagination. FORT OF TAGHLAKABAD, AT DELHI, ENCLOSING TOMB OP TAGHLAK SHAH. Hence, with the best intentions and with excellent ideas, but with no balance or patience and no sense of propor- tion, Mohammad Taghlak was a transcendent failure. His reign was one long series of revolts, savagely re- pressed; his subjects, whom he wished to benefit and on whom he lavished his treasure, grew to loathe him; all his schemes came to nothing, and when, after twenty- six years, he died of a fever on the banks of the Indus,