The Brahmin was dragged from his den of infamy. He shrank from the gaze of the scornful Mahomedan. His own companions slank out of the temple and left him to his fate. He was instantly hanged from one of the pillars of the sanctuary which he had so frequently profaned. The beautiful widow became Mahmood’s favourite queen, which event immediately followed upon her unexpected deliverance from the “Idol of Somnat.” FOOTNOTES: [9] A sort of missile discus, with which the divinity Vishnoo is always represented armed. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Heg. 421 (A.D. 1030).--A conspiracy was formed in favour of Prince Musaood, the king’s brother. Mahomed was surrounded in his tent by the conspirators and his person seized. The refractory nobles immediately joined Musaood and swore allegiance to him. Mahomed was deprived of sight and cast into prison. Heg. 422 (1031).--The king raised Altoon Tash, one of his own domestic sweepers, to the viceroyship of Rye in Persia. Heg. 423 (1032).--Khwaja Ahmud, the vizier, died. Heg. 424 (1033).--This year was remarkable for a great drought and famine in many parts of the world. The famine was succeeded by a pestilence, which, in less than a month, swept away forty thousand persons from Ispahan alone. In Hindostan whole countries were depopulated. Heg. 425 (1034).--The Ghiznivite general Boghtudy was defeated by the Suljooks. Heg. 427 (1036).--A new palace was finished at Ghizny. In it was a golden throne, studded with jewels, erected in a magnificent hall: over the throne was suspended by a golden chain a crown of gold, weighing seventy mauns or a hundred and thirty-five pounds, and emitting lustre from numerous precious stones. This formed a canopy for the king when he sat in state to give public audience. Heg. 431 (1040).--Musaood, being defeated by the Suljooks, and deserted by his generals, his subjects restored his brother Mohamed, whom he had blinded, to the throne. Heg. 433 (1042).--Musaood was assassinated in the fort of Kurry. Modood, his son, marched against his uncle, and defeating him, put him and all his sons to death. About this time the Toorkomans of Toghrul Beg made an incursion into the Ghiznivite territories by the way of Boost, against whom Modood sent an army which gave them a signal defeat. Heg. 438 (1046).--Toghrul Beg began to entertain treasonable designs against his sovereign, but upon his treachery being discovered, his adherents deserted him, and he was obliged to fly from the king’s dominions. Heg. 440 (1048).--Modood conferred the royal dress, drums and robes upon his two eldest sons, Mahmood and Munsoor.