Riyaz al-salatin 109.1.5

109.1.5

He attended constantly to the well-being of his Army, and to the happiness of his subjects. On his officers, he lavished largesses amounting to no less than one thousand or five hundred rupees in each case. Constantly animated by a scrupulous regard for justice, and always inspired by fear of God, he uprooted from his realm the foundations of oppressions and tyrannies. Executing Nazir Ahmad and Murad Farrash, the employes of Navvab Ja'far Khan, who were notorious for their high-handedness, he confiscated their effects. Nazir Ahmad had laid the foundation of a Mosque with a garden at Dehpara on the banks of the river Bhagirati. Shuja'u-d-daulah, after executing him, finished the mosque and garden, and named them after himself. And he tastefully embellished the garden by building therein grand palaces with reservoirs, canals and numerous fountains. It was a splendid garden, compared with which the spring-houses of Kashmir paled like withering autumn-gardens; nay, the garden of Iram itself seemed to draw its inspiration of freshness and sweetness from it. Shuja'u-d-daulah used frequently to resort for promenades and picnics to that paradise-like garden, and held there pleasure-parties and other entertainments. Every year in that beautiful garden, he used to give a State Banquet to the educated section of his State Officers. It is said that owing to the superb charmfulness of that garden, Fairies used to come down there for picnics and walks, and to bathe in its tanks.