The Institutes of Akbar 296: No. 69. Jagannat’h, son of Rajah Bihari Mall (No. 23).

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He was a hostage in the hands of Sharafuddin Husain (No. 17; vide p. 329). After some time he regained his freedom and was well received by Akbar. He generally served with Man Singh. In the 21st year, when Rana Partab of Maiwar opposed the Imperialists, Jagannat’h during an engagement when other officers had given way, held his ground, and killed with his own hands the renowned champion Ram Das, son of Jai Mall. In the 23rd year, he received a jagir in the Panjab, and was, in the 25th year, attached to the van of the army which was to prevent Mirza Muhammad Hakim from invading the Panjab. In the 29th year, he again served against the Rana. Later he accompanied Mirza Yusuf Khan (No. 35) to Kashmir. In the 34th year, he served under Prince Murad in Kabul, and accompanied him, in the 36th year, to Malwah, of which the Prince had been appointed Governor. In the 43rd year, after several years’ service in the Dak’hin, he left Murad without orders, and was for some time excluded from Court. On Akbar’s return from the Dak’hin, J. met the emperor at Rantanbhur, his jagir, and was then again sent to the Dak’hin.
In the 1st year of Jahangir, he served under Prince Parwiz against the Rana, and was in charge of the whole army when the emperor, about the time Khusrau had been captured, called Parwiz to Court (Tuzuk, p. 33). In the same year, J. suppressed disturbances which Dalpat (p. 359) had raised at Nagor.
In the 4th year, he was made a Commander of Five Thousand, with 3000 horse.
Ram Chand, his son. He was under Jahangir a Commander of Two Thousand, 1500 horse.
Rádjah Mánrúp, a son of Rám Chand. He accompanied Prince Sháhjahán on his rebellion, and got on his accession a Command of Three Thousand, with 2000 horse. He died in the 4th year of Sháhjahán. He had a son Gopál Sing’h.
70. Makhsús Khán, (younger) brother of Sa’íd Khán (No. 25).
He served under his brother in Multán. In the 23rd year, he served under Sháhbáz Khán (No. 80) against Gajpati, and three years later, he accompanied Prince Murád to Kábul, where he also served under Akbar, who had gone thither and pardoned his brother, M. Muhammad Hakím.
Subsequently, Makhsús served under Prince Salím. In the 49th year, he was a Commander of Three Thousand.
He was alive in the beginning of Jahángír’s reign. The author of the Maásir has not recorded the date of his death.
He had a son Maqsúd who did not get on well with his father, for which reason Jahángír would not give him a manṣab.
71. The author of the Á’ín, Abulfazl, son of Shaik Mubárik of Nágor.
Abulfazl’s biography will be found elsewhere.