The Institutes of Akbar 250.13

250.13

2. Mirzā Dārāb Dārāb-Khān. He has been mentioned above (p. 337). When Shāhjahān made him Governor of Bengal, he retained his wife, a son and a daughter, and a son of Shāhnawāz Khān as hostages (yarghamal). When the prince after the fight near the Tons (Benares) had again to go to the Dak’hin, he wrote to Dārāb Khān to move to Garhī (N. W. entrance of Bengal) and join him. Dārāb wrote him that he could not come, being besieged by the zamīndārs of the place. He fell at last into the hands of Parwīz and Mahābat Khān, and as Jahāngīr had ‘no objections’, Mahābat executed him (1035), wrapped his head in a table cloth, and sent it to his father M. ’A. as a present of a ‘melon.’ A short time before, ’Abdullah Khān had killed Dārāb’s son and a son of Shāhnawāz Khān. 3. Mirzā Rahmān Dād. His mother belonged to the Sōd’has of Amarkōt. Though very dissolute, he was most liked by his father. He died, at Bālāpūr, about the same time as his eldest brother. Vide Tuzuk, p. 315. No one dared to inform his father of the event, till people sent at last the famous saint Hazrat ’Īsā of Sindh to M. ’A. on a visit of condolence. 4. Mirzā Amrullah. He grew up without education, and died when young.