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 158 MOHAMMAD TAGHLAK AND FIKOZ SHAH grievously. He surrendered all authority into the hands of the late vizir's son, the second Khan-i-Jahan, and when the latter fell by the influence of Prince Mo- hammad in 1387, the old king transferred the royal elephants to the prince and allowed him to rule as he pleased. Unfortunately Mohammad was given to pleas- ure, and his misgovernment excited a formidable rebel- lion of the slaves who formed so important a faction in Delhi. Firoz himself had to come forward to quell the revolt, which instantly subsided at his appearance, and the prince fled. The Sultan next appointed his grandson Taghlak Shah II, son of Fath Khan, to ad- minister the realm, and very soon afterwards died, " worn out with weakness," at the age of ninety, in Sep- tember, 1388. No king since Nasir-ad-din had so ap- pealed to the affections of his subjects, and in the brief and modest memoirs which the Sultan left, he recites some of the successful efforts he made to repress irrelig- ion and wickedness, and to restore good government, just law, kindness, and generosity to the people, in the place of torture and bloodshed and oppression. " Through the mercy which God has shown to me," he wrote, " these cruelties and terrors have been changed to tenderness, kindness, and compassion. I thank the All-Bountiful God for the many and various blessings which He has bestowed upon me."