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— 46 — TWO KINGS IN ONE PALACE. THRTINTH ARTICLE The assassination of Payunda Khan and the collapse of the kingdom of Zaman Shah was in reality the beginning of the end of the reign of the Saduzai rule. The sad action of blinding of the Vazir Fateh Khan and his assassination not only brought about disruption between the two most important families of nobles, but also it opened a gateway of trouble which admitted much discord from the advent of the first quarter of the 19th. century to the middle of that century. During this period of the time, when the Saduzai dynasty had lost its prerogative, and the government of the Mahamedzais had not yet established, and one of the historians call that period as the "Period of the Rise of the Baretzais", was due to the disturbances that occurred during the time, when the hand of the relatives was raised against his relative; and fueds reigned supreme everywhere occasioning those regretable incidents which distress our minds upto the 19th. century , and even upto a later period. * * * Contrary to the saying that no two kings can exist in one kingdom; in our country, not only two kings lived in one king-dom, in one city, but even one palace; between the years of 1818. A. D. and 1924. A. D. (in the years of end of the first quarter of the 19th. century of Christian Era.) Because the cooperation. of two important Houses of Nobles, namely the Barakzais and Saduzais for the second time was