The Institutes of Akbar 256.5

256.5

In the 35th year, he was sent to punish several rebellious zamíndárs in the Himalayas. Most of them, as Rajah Budi (Badhí) Chand of Nagarkot (vide p. 330), Rai Pertáb of Mankot, Rajah Parásrám of Mount Jammú, Rajah Bástú of Mau, Rai Balbhadr of Lak’hinpúr, &c., submitted and accompanied Z. Kh. to Court, though they had an army of 10000 horse and a lac of foot soldiers. After having been made, in the 36th year, a Commander of Four Thousand, Z. Kh. was allowed an ’alam and a naqqárah (vide p. 50), and was appointed, in the following year, governor of the districts beyond the Indus up to the Hindukush, when new opportunities offered for punishing the mountaineers. In the 41st year, he was made a Commander of Five Thousand, and governor of Kabul, vice Qulij Khan. In the same year, Prince Salim fell in love with Z. Kh.’s daughter, and married her soon after, though Akbar was displeased (vide p. 277, l. 4, from below). With the death of Jalal Khan Raushani the disturbances in Zábulistán came to an end, and Z. Kh. was ordered to Láhor, from where Akbar, on his return from Burhánpúr, called him to Ágrah. Z. Kh. died in 1010, partly from excessive drinking. He played on several instruments, and composed poems. As Sa‘id Khán (No. 25) for his eunuchs, and Qulij Khan (No. 42) for his horses, so was Z. Kh. famous for his elephants.