Note 53 — PART I.—DESCRIPTION.

According to most accounts Násir-ud-dín was led to poison his father by an attempt of his younger brother Shujáât Khán, supported if not organised by some of Ghiás-ud-dín’s favourite wives to oust Násir-ud-dín from the succession.53 In the struggle Násir-ud-dín triumphed and was crowned at Mándu in a.d. 1500.54 The new king left Mándu to put down a revolt. On his return to Mándu he devoted himself to debauchery and to hunting down and murdering his brother’s adherents. He subjected his mother Khurshíd Ráni to great indignities and torture to force from her information regarding his father’s concealed treasures.55 In a fit of drunkenness he fell into a reservoir. He was pulled out by four of his female slaves. He awoke with a headache, and discovering what his slaves had done put them to death with his own hand.56 Some time after in a.d. 1512, he again fell into the reservoir, and there he was left till he was dead.57 Násir-ud-dín was fond of building. His palace at Akbarpur in the Nímar plain about twenty miles south of Mándu was splendid and greatly admired.58 And at Mándu besides his sepulchre59 which the emperor Jehángír (a.d. 1617) mentions,60 an Appendix II. The Hill Fort of Mándu. History The Málwa Sultáns, a.d. 1400–1570. inscription shows that the palace now known by the name of Báz Bahádur was built by Násir-ud-dín.