Five attendants only remained when the Emperor rose from his
seat, and at that moment the building fell in and crushed them and
their master. Juna had been sent at the head of an army into the
Deccan, where he collected immense wealth from the plunder of the
palaces of princes and the temples of their priests, the only places
in which much wealth was to be found in those days. This wealth he
tried to conceal from his father, whose death he probably thus
contrived, that he might the sooner have the free enjoyment of it
with unlimited power.[7]
Only thirty years before, Ala-ud-din, returning in the same manner at
the head of an army from the Deccan loaded with wealth, murdered the
Emperor Firoz the Second, the father of his wife, and ascended the
throne.[8] Juna ascended the throne under the name of Muhammad the
Third;[9] and, after the remains of his father had been deposited in
the tomb I have described, he passed in great pomp and splendour from
the fortress of Tughlakabad, which his father had just then
completed, to the city in which the Minar stands, with elephants
before and behind loaded with gold and silver coins, which were
scattered among the crowd, who everywhere hailed him with shouts of
joy.
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