Riyaz al-salatin 105.2.12

105.2.12

in case a hair-breadth injury, in person or property, happens to him, I will avenge myself on you, my boy." And peremptory orders were also passed by the Emperor to the effect that the Prince should quit Bengal and withdraw to Behar. Leaving Sarbaland Khan with Sultan Farukh-sir as his Deputy in Bengal, the Prince with Sultan Karimu-d-din, his household attendants and bodyguard set out from Jahangirnagar, and reached Mungir (Monghyr). Finding there the elegant white and black marble edifices built by Shah Shuja to be in a dilapidated condition, and seeing that a heavy outlay would be needed to set them in order, he did not like to fix his quarters there. And preferring the climate of Patna, which is on the bank of the river Ganges, the Prince fixed his quarters there. With the Emperor's sanction, he improved that city, named it 'Azimabad after himself, and built there a fort with a strong rampart. Kar Talab Khan, at Makhsusabad, after the lapse of a year, prepared the Annual Abstract Accounts, and started for the Imperial Camp. And preparing the Revenue-Assessment papers, the Revenue-Roll, the estate Ledgers, and the Cash-Account of Receipts and Disbursements of the Subah, he desired Darab Narain, the Qanungo of the Subah of Bengal, to sign them.