Riyaz al-salatin 109.2.8

109.2.8

Muhammad Taqi Khan, who in bravery was the Rustam of his day, did not care for the enemy. The negociations for peace and war passed and repassed between the two brothers. When Nawab Shuja'u-d-daulah saw that affairs had taken a grave turn, he intervened, reconciled the brothers, and prevented their fighting. And out of regard for the feelings of Sarfaraz Khan and the Begams, rebuking several times Muhammad Taqi Khan, Shuja'u-d-daulah prohibited the latter from coming to see and salute him. At length, at the intercession of Sarfaraz Khan's mother, he pardoned Muhammad Taqi Khan, and permitted him to go back to the Subah of Orissa. But on arrival in Orissa, in the year 1147 A.H., owing to the witchcraft of the enemy, he died. On this, Murshid Quli Khan, surnamed Makhmur, who was a son-in-law of Shuja'u-d-daulah and was already Deputy Nazim of Jahangir-nagar (Dacca), and was a son of a merchant of the Port of Surat, and who in his writings and compositions, and in his poetical productions and caligraphy, enjoyed great excellence, was appointed Deputy Nazim of the Subah of Orissa.