1 Slaughter of the
2 people living in the
3 neighbourhood of the
4 capital.
5 Nadir seizes on the
6 regalia of the Moghal
7 Empiie.
8 The citizens put
9 under contribution.
10 Dreadful tortures.
11 The wealth carried
12 away by Nadir.
13 Fe marries his son
14 to a princess of the
15 house of T'ymur.
16 Entertainntents.
17 Muhammad Shah
18 restored.
19 AU the country west
20 of the Indus ceded to
21 Nadir Shah,
22 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh |i eLibrary amdhari
23 206 . HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
24 were suspected of being accomplices in the late treason, were beheaded.
25 The tyrant’s thirst for blood was, however, not yet satiated. On some
26 trivial excuse he put to the sword six thousand of the inhabitants of Moghal-
27 pura, while thousands were slain in the villages adjoining Delhi. In the
28 royal market, where the tumult had first arisen, he had the noses and ears
29 of seven hundred persons, who were indiscriminately seized, cut off.
30 NaAdir Shah, satiated with the carnage, now proceeded to take possession
31 of all the moveable treasures in the town, by this time to a great extent
32 in ruins. He seized upon the regalia of the Moghal emperor and the
33 public treasure, in which were found concealed jewels, specie and rich
34 robes, the accumulation of ages, which the Moghal emperors had been
35 most diligent in procuring by every means in their power, many of the
36 articles being of unrivalled beauty. These, together with elephants,
37 horses and everything valuable belonging to the royal house of Tymur
38 were ‘seized. The victors then plundered the nobles and wealthy citizens,
39 and by threats, torture and every severity, compelled them to produce their
40 hidden treasures and valuables. Contributions were then levied upon the
41 citizens. The gates of the city were closed, and the citizens tortured with
42 a view to making them disgorge their wealth. Great numbers of the
43 inhabitants died of this treatment, while many, to avoid suffering, shame
44 and poverty, destroyed themselves. Sleep and rest forsook the people,
45 lamentations proceeded from every house having inmates, and death was
46 sought rather than avoided. ;
47 Large contributions were also levied on the governors of provinces, and
48 the total wealth carried away by Nadir is described by historians as being
49 between eight and thirty karors (£8,000,000 and £30,000,000) of money,
50 exclusive of jewels, rich stuffs and other valuable property, among which
51 was included the famous Kohintr diamond, now forming part of the
52 British regalia. He also carried away a large number of elephants, horses,
53 camels and valuable furniture, and the most skilful workmen and artisans,
54 numbering several hundreds.* He married his son, Nasrullah, to the
55 daughter of Aziz-ud-din, the son of Kam Baksh, and a grandson of Aurang-
56 zeb. The Shah himself felt a violent desire to make the beautiful daughter
57 of Muzaffar, the brother of Khan Douran, his queen, but he was prevented
58 from carrying out his wishes by one of his wives, who possessed the art of
59 controlling his temper, which the rest of the world so much dreaded. The
60 week following the marriage of Nasrullah was spent in publie entertain-
61 ments, banquets, shows, pageants and other amusements, among which
62 were the combats of wild beasts. Nddir then amply rewarded his troops
63 for their hard and faithful services, and every private soldier got a largess
64 of above twelve pounds.
65 The last act of Nddir was to convene an assembly of all the Omerahs
66 and chiefs of State, in which he replaced the imperial diadem on the head
67 of Muhammad Shah with his own hands, and helped him to ascend the throne
68 of his ancestors. A treaty was drawn up ceding all the territories north-
69 west of the Indus, together with Sindh and Tatta, to the king of Persia. The
70 Shah then spoke at lehgth to the Moghal Emperor about his future policy,
71 and enjoined on his Omerahs the necessity of obedience to their sovereign and
72 a regard for his welfare. After these transactions the king left Delhi, on his
73 * Fraser gives a long list of the wealth carried away by Nadir Shah from India. He is
74 emied to have carried away jewels from the emperor and the Omerahs, treasure, goods and assets
75 e the vane of seventy karors ; his officers and soldiers carried away ten karors, and he spent
76 wv peed sarors more on the maintenance of his army in India, giving them arrears of pay anda
77 gratuity, He carried away 1,000 elephants, 7,000 horses, 10,000 camels, 100 eunuchs, 130
78 writers, 200 smiths, 300 masons, 100 stone-cutter , and 200 esa
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