1 raise him immediately to the - throne- bv which he would have
2 prevented the consultations which daily took place in the fortress
3 for fourteen days, until at last it. was decided that the Ranee
4 Ohund Kour, mother of No-Nohal Sing, and heiress, should occupy
5 the throne, which she did not know how to maintain. There
6 is more reason to suppose that the partisans of Kumick Sing and
7 Chet Sin” 1 were the authors of this plot against the prince, as he
8 had intended to ask them for an account of their perfidious
9 be! »aviour during his father's long illness, they having cheated
10 and robbed him in the most shameful manner, and it was gene¬
11 rally known that immediately alter the funeral rites of his father,
12 he (the prince) intended to order seven of their houses to be
13 closed, and inquiries to bo made.
14 During the conferences of the sirdars in the fortress, which
15 lasted for a fortnight, the Jinnee Clnmd Kour attempted the life
16 of Sheer Sing; but Libyan Sing was soon informed of it, and
17 warned his protigL Sheer Sing did not forget it, and when lie
18 afterwards took the reins of government into his hands, it
19 happened that during his absence from Lahore, the slave-girls
20 of Chnud Kour crushed the head of their mistress with a brick,
21 whilst she was enjoying her siesta. Dhyan Sing proceeded, in
22 the absence of the king, against the assassins, nod caused their
23 noses, cars and hands to be cut off, which was effected publicly,
24 before the koUtali (police-oflice), and expelled them from‘the
25 city; but as tlieir tongues had remained unhurt, they alleged
26 that they only fulfilled the wish of Sheer Sing, who promised
27 them as a reward a jaghir (some land). On that account,
28 they were transported to tiie opposite side of the river Uavee,
29 • and were never afterwards heard .oil
30 The Sikh troops had been often reviewed before their monarch
31 or the royal prince, and on such occasions some were promoted Di¬
32 re warded. This was abolished under the government of Ctumd
33 Kour. Site was only visible to some of iter confidant.-. Her
34 ministers and counsellors directed the helm of the state ves-d.
35 which moved on indifferently, as each one neglected f lic public.