The Institutes of Akbar 328.4

328.4

From the time of Akbar’s death, the kings of the Dak’hin had been restless, and Malik ’Ambar had seized upon several places in the Bálághát District. The Khán Khánán, (No. 29), with his usual duplicity, had done nothing to recover the loss, and Jahángír sent Prince Parwíz to the Dak’hin, with Áçaf Khán as atálíq, and the most renowned grandees of the Court, as Rájáh Mán Singh (No. 30), Khán Jahán Lodí, Khán i A’zam, (No. 21), ’Abdullah Khán, “each in himself sufficient for the conquest of a country.” But incessant drinking on the part of the Prince, and the jealousy and consequent insubordination of the Amírs, spoiled everything, and the Mughuls suffered a check and lost their prestige (p. 326). Not long after, in 1021, Áçaf died at Burhánpúr. The Táríkh of his death is— صد حیف از آصف خان, A hundred times Alas! for Áçaf Khán! The Tuzuk (p. 108) says that he died at the age of sixty-three.