He
established Taimur as his viceroy at Herat, and his youngest son at
Kandahar; and fixed his own residence at Kabul, where he died.[4] He
was succeeded by Taimur Shah, who was succeeded by his eldest son,
Zaman Shah, who, after a reign of a few years, was driven from his
throne by his younger brother, Mahmud. He sought an asylum with his
friend Ashik, who commanded a distant fortress, and who betrayed him
to the usurper, and put him into confinement. He concealed the great
diamond in a crevice in the wall of the room in which he was
confined; and the rest of his jewels in a hole made in the ground
with his dagger. As soon as Mahmud received intimation of the arrest
from Ashik, he sent for his brother, had his eyes put out, and
demanded the jewels, but Zaman Shah pretended that he had thrown them
into the river as he passed over. Two years after this, the third
brother, the Sultan Shuja, deposed Mahmud, ascended the throne by the
consent of his elder brother, and, as a fair specimen of his notions
of retributive justice, he blew away from the mouths of cannon, not
only Ashik himself, but his wife and all his innocent and unoffending
children.
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