The Institutes of Akbar 242.6

242.6

In the 3rd year of Jahangir’s reign (1017), M. ’Aziz was restored to his rank, and appointed (nominally) to the command of Gujrat, his eldest son, Jahangir Quli Khan, being his naib. In the 5th year, when matters did not go on well in the Dak’hin, he was sent there with 10,000 men. In the 8th year (1022), Jahangir went to Ajmir, and appointed, at the request of ‘Aziz, Shahjahan to the command of the Dak’hin forces, whilst he was to remain as adviser. But Shahjahan did not like M. Aziz on account of his partiality for Khusrau, and Mahabat Khan was despatched from Court to accompany ’Aziz from Udaipur to Agrah. In the 9th year, ‘Aziz was again imprisoned, and put under the charge of Asaf Khan in the Fort of Gwaliar (Tuzuk, p. 127). He was set free a year later, and soon after restored to his rank. In the 18th year, he was appointed Ataliq to Prince Dawar Bakhsh, who had been made Governor of Gujrat. M. Aziz died in the 19th year (1033) at Ahmadabad. ’Aziz was remarkable for ease of address, intelligence, and his knowledge of history. He also wrote poems. Historians quote the following aphorism from his ‘pithy’ sayings. ‘A man should marry four wives—a Persian woman to have somebody to talk to; a Khurasani woman, for his housework; a Hindu woman, for nursing his children; and a woman from Mawarannahr, to have some one to whip as a warning for the other three’. Vide Iqbalnamah, p. 230. Kokah means ‘foster brother,’ and is the same as the Turkish Kükaltásh or Kükaltash.