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Hence Muslim, Guebre and Jew first magnify
God, and declare His Power and Unity ;
Then, humbly praying, bow them in the dust,
And thus invoke the Judge All-wise and Just:—
' Lord, send him not victorious^, we pray :
Cause all his schemes and plans to go astray!' "

Similar disturbances broke out at Shiraz and in other

cities, and, yielding to the representations of the Mongol

nobles and others, Gaykhatu finally consented

withdr^n^        to recall the obnoxious chao and abolish the

paper currency which had intensified instead of

ameliorating the financial crisis.

Shortly after this untoward experiment, Gaykhatu, in

one of those drunken orgies which were habitual to him,

p^rossly insulted his cousin Baydu, a grandson

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insults his          of Hulagu, and caused him to be beaten by one

cousin ay u ^^ j^j^ retainers. Next morning, when he came
to his senses, he repented of his action, and endeavoured to
conciliate Baydu by means of gifts and honours. Baydu,
for reasons of expediency, concealed his resentment for the
time, but soon afterwards, encouraged by certain disaffected
Mongol nobles, he openly revolted against Gaykhatu, who,
betrayed by his general Tughachar, was taken prisoner and
put to death at Muqan, on Thursday, 6 Jumada II, 694
(April 23, 1295).

Baydlt (April-October, 1295).

Baydu was crowned soon after this at Hamadan, and

after celebrating his accession in the usual drunken fashion

of the Mongols^, proceeded to appoint Tugha-

Baydu (April-    charcommander-iu-chiefdismissthelatepremicr

Oct., A.D. 1295)                       ^                                                '        ^                               ^

Sadr-i-fahdn, and replace him by Jamalu'd-Din
Dastajirdani. He did not, however, long enjoy the high
position which he had gained,  for six months after his

1   " Victorious " is the meaning of Muzaffar.

2  Habibu's-Siyar (Bombay lithographed ed. of 1857), vol. iii, pt. i,
p. 81.