The Institutes of Akbar 310.6

310.6

After two years he was released, was made ataliq to M. Shahrukh, who had been appointed to Malwah and was on his way to Prince Murad in the Dak’hin. During the siege of Ahmadnagar, the inhabitants of Shahri Nau, ‘which is called Burhanabad,’ asked the Imperialists for protection; but as they were mostly Shi’ahs, Sh., in his bigotry, fell upon them, plundered their houses, especially the quarter called Langar i Duwazdah Imam, the very name of which must have stunk in Sh.’s nostrils. The inhabitants ‘seeing that they could not rely on the word of the Mughuls,’ emigrated. The Prince was irritated; and when Çadiq Khan (No. 43) was appointed his ataliq, Sh. left without permission for Malwah. Akbar gave his jagir to Shahrukh, and transferred Shahbaz. In the 43rd year, Sh. was sent to Ajmir as Commander of the mangala of Prince Salim (Jahangir), whom Akbar had asked to go from Ilahabad against the Rana. But Sh. was now above seventy years old, and as he had been in the habit of eating quicksilver, he commenced to suffer from pain in his hands and wrists. He got well again, but had in Ajmir another attack; he rallied again, but died suddenly in the 44th year (1008). Salim took quickly possession of Sh.’s treasures, went back to Ilahabad without having done anything, and continued in his rebellious attitude towards his father.