Muntakhab al-tawarikh 136.3

136.3

1593-94), owing to the efforts made on his behalf by certain courtiers who had his Majesty's confidence he was summoned from Bakkar to the Imperial presence, and in company with some other prisoners such as Shaikh Kamal-i-Biyabani the impostor, some mention of whom has already been made, and the Qazis of Fathpur, who had been imprisoned in Bakkar for fourteen years owing to the machinations of Shaikh Ibrahim-i-Chishti and whose release had been ordered by means of the intercession of Mirza Nizamu-’d-din Ahmad, he arrived at Court, and there they all paid their respects to his Majesty, and all, with the exception of the Shaikh, prostrated themselves. He, an old man of seventy years of age, utterly unaccustomed to the ceremonial of kingly courts and the correct fashion of waiting upon royal personages, made a slight inclination and a mere bow, after the old custom. The Emperor’s displeasure with him was renewed, and the Mirza was ordered to have a grant of three hundred bigas of land in Bakkar made out to him, as madad-i-ma‘ash, and to despatch the Shaikh thither once more. Begum Padshah, the mother of his Majesty, busied herself in the ladies’ apartments of the palace in interceding for the Shaikh, and said to the Emperor, “My son, he has an aged and decrepit mother in Ajmer, whose heart yearns to see her son again. How would it be if you were to give him leave to depart to Ajmer?