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 92 The Kutb Minar. Tiigluck, and having pensioned and provided for them, have caused them to grant their full pardon and forgiveness to that prince in the presence of the holy and learned men of this age, whose signatures and seals as witnesses are affixed to the documents, the whole of which, as far as lay in my power, have been procured and put into a box and deposited in the vault in which Muhammad Tugluck is entombed. I have gone and sought consolation from all the most learned and holy men within my realm and have taken care of them. Whenever my soldiers have been rendered inefficient for service by wounds or by age, I have caused them to be pensioned on full pay for life. Two attempts have been made to poison me but without effect." ! 1 Brisrsi's " Muhammadan Power in India," i. 464. so '