tures; to whom he answered by the well-known adage, "It is impossible for two kings to sit together upon the same throne." He consequently made preparations for supporting his pretensions, but his efforts ended in his own ruin.
Meanwhile Sultan Mahomed Muazem reached Lahore, where in a few days he was joined by his son Moiz-ed-din, who had set out from Multan with all the troops he could collect on so short a notice. There the latter was admitted to the honour of kissing his father's feet, after which he pronounced a speech in his praise, prayed for his prosperity and length of days, and then followed him to Acberabad. Fortune seemed in other respects to favour this prince, for Azim-ush-shan the king's youngest son, who with a numerous and well-appointed army was then on his march to Acberabad, intercepted a convoy of a corore[1] of rupees, being the revenue of Bengal, which the finance minister of that country was sending to the capital, and secured the whole of it, but kept it untouched at his father's disposal. He also seized Mokhtar-khan, the governor of the province of Acberabad, a nobleman of importance, who had given his daughter in marriage to the prince Bedar-bakht, and who was a hearty well-wisher to the cause of
- ↑ A corore is a hundred lacs, equal to about a million sterling.
