timub beg.

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CHAPTER X.
a. d. 1398.

Timur, after a short repose in his capital, which he
had embellished about this time with a splendid pa-
lace and several other public buildings, determined
to march his victorious army into the fertile pro-
vinces south of the Indus. Having invested his
fourth son Mirza Shah Rukh with the sovereignty
of Khorassan and its neighbouring principalities, and
built another magnificent palace for the reception of
a new bride, he prepared for his memorable inva-
sion of Hindostan.

Six years after the death of Feroz Toghluk Shah,
Emperor of Delhi, Mulloo Yekbal Khan, and Sarung
Khan, two brothers, who had been generals of that
monarch, placed upon the throne his grandson Mah-
mood Toghluk; but afterwards assuming to themselves
the sovereign power, which they exercised in his name,
the one established himself in Delhi, the other in Mool-
tan. The tomb of Toghluk Shah, who was certainly
by far the greatest sovereign of the third Tartar race of
the princes of Delhi,—all of that dynasty having borne
the name of Toghluk,—is a remarkably fine piece of
monumental architecture. It is placed upon a slight
elevation, commanding the neighbouring plain, here
terminated by the MewTat hills, which form at once