text:  31 1661 ) in the eighty-sixth year of his age and was buried in a splendid mausoleum which he had erected for himself near the Tauk-bazar (poultry market) at Constantinople--the vault of which during his life he had daily filled with corn which was then distributed to the poor to purchase their prayers! "Thus " says a Turkish annalist "died Kiuprili-Mohammed who was most zealous and active in the cause of the faith! Enjoying absolute power and being anxious to purify the Ottoman empire he slew in Anatolia 400 000[9] rebels including seventeen vizirs or pashas of three tails forty-one of two tails seventy sandjak-beys three mallahs and a Moghrabiu sheikh