Muntakhab al-tawarikh 12.12

12.12

Husain Khan, when he heard of the capture of the Mirza, hastened to Multan, and saw Sa'id Khan. He made a difficulty about seeing the Mirza, and said: "If when I see him, I salute him, it will be inconsistent with my duty to the Emperor, and if I do not salute him, it will be uncourteous, and the Mirza will say to himself — 'See this uncircumcised fellow, who, when he received quarter at the siege of Satwas, made obeisances without end, and now that evil days are fallen upon me treats me cavalierly.'" The Mirza heard these ceremonious words of his, and said "Come and see me, and without obeisance, for I waive it." Notwithstanding he made his bow, and saw him. The Mirza, with an anxious look, said, "I had no intention of rebellion and disturbance. When the matter took a serious turn, I took my own course, and threw myself into a foreign country. But they would not allow me to stay there. If it was my fate that this defeat should fall upon me, would to God that I had received it at your hands, that it might have been the cause of the advancement of you, who are my co-religionist, and not from Husain Kuli Khan, who is alien in religion and sect!" Husain Khan then returned to Kant and Gola, and soon afterwards he heard that the Mirza had died in prison.