1 MOZ-UD-DIN KEKUBAD: JALAL-UD-DIN FEROZ. 1038
2 became the deadly foe of this luxury, prohibiting the sale and manufacture
3 of liquor throughout his dominions under the severest penalties.
4 MOZ-UD-DIN KEKUBAD.
5 On the death of his grandfather, Kekubéd, son of Nasfr-ud-din Kara-Khan, , Kekubéd crowned
6 at that time viceroy of the province of Bengal, then in his eighteenth year,
7 ascended the throne by the title of Moz-ud-din.” He was a handsome and
8 engaging youth, and had been brought up with great rigour by his father, but
9 he soon gave himself up to licentious habits, leaving the executive power of
10 the State entirely in the hands of the wazir, who, for his own private ends,
11 encouraged the riotous debauchery of his master. The only event of impor-
12 tance which occurred in the Panjab during his short reign was an invasion , Fresh ioursion of
13 of the districts of Lahore by the Moghals. The king sentan army against “°™°"**
14 them, under Malik Yar Beg Birlas and Khan Jehan. The Moghals were
15 defeated near Lahore, anda great number of them were brought prisoners ,,Massacre of the
16 to Delhi, where, shortly afterwards, all the Moghal officers in the service of ~ a
17 the State were executed on the pretence of their collusion with their
18 ‘countrymen.
19 The feeble monarch neglecting the affairs of the State, the executive
20 power was assumed by three nobles of the court, of whom Malik Jalal-ud-dfn
21 Feroz, of the Khiljai tribe, was the chief. At his instance, the king was
22 assassinated in his country palace, while lying sick and helpless on his bed.
23 The event happened in 1288, and with it the slave dynasty of kings, which
24 had reigned trom 1205 to 1288, a period of eighty-three years, came to an, Kekubid murdered
25 end. Kekubdd had reigned a little more than three years. On his death, ~~”
26 Jalal-uid-din Khiljai was proclaimed king.
27 CHAPTER V.
28 THE KHILJAI DYNASTY OF THE TARTARS.
29 ‘ JALAL-UD-DIN FEROZ.
30 wes Changez Khan was on his way back to Turdn, from the pursuit of _ origin of the Khil-
31 Jalal-ud-din Khwarzm Shah on the banks of the Indus, his son-in-law, 3 *™8*
32 Khalij Khan, a descendant of the Khulich or Khalij, with his tribe, amount-
33 ing to thirty thousand families, settled in the mountains west of the Panjdb,
34 where they still remain. The Ghiljais belonged to a martial race, and, being
35 of warlike disposition, they entered the service of the kings of Ghazni and
36 India, and among them some obtained opportunities of holding posts of
37 distinction and trust under their respective governments. Jalal-ud-din, a
38 descendant of Khalij Khan, rose into favour with the late king, but was
39 himself seventy years old when he ascended the throne.
40 Duving his reign, in the year 1291, Abdulla, a grandson of Halaku Panjab invaded by
41 Khan, the grandson of Changez Khan, having invaded the Panjab at the o fata thon ian
42 head of a hundred thousand horsemen, Jalal-ud-din Feroz collected a large *-”
43 army and marched in person to meet him. A general action was fought on
44 the plains of the Panjab, in which, after a very severe contest, the Moghals
45 were defeated, many of their chiefs slain and a large number of them taken
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