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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.1.5

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 77.1.5

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77.1.5

But it so happened that this Tulak had one night a quarrel with his wife, who being vexed with him, went in the morning to Bahadur Khan and told him that Tulak was concealing Abu-l-Ma‘ali in his house, and that they were plotting together against himself. Bahadur Khan, mounting his horse, had Shah Abu-l-Ma‘ali seized and sent him to Bairam Khan, and Tulak he ordered to be punished. Bairam Khan entrusted Shah to Wali Beg the Turkoman, and sent him off towards Bakkar [i. e., Mecca]. Wali Beg annoyed him very much by the way, and sent him towards Gujrat, that from thence he might go to Mekka. There he committed a murder, and fled and joined himself to ‘Ali Quli Khan. When Bairam Khan received information of this, he sent an order to ‘Ali Quli Khan that he should send him to Agra. At the time that, in accordance with this order, he arrived at Agra the power of Bairam Khan was already on the decline; Bairam Khan, then, with a view to dispelling the suspicions of the Emperor sent him for a time to the fortress of Biyana. And, when he professed a resolution of making a pilgrimage to Mekka, he again took him as the companion of his journey. But after a few days Abu-l-Ma‘ali separated from him also, and went to offer his adhesion to the Emperor. But, when of his extreme arrogance, he rode proudly up to him, this affair became the cause of his being imprisoned a second time, until he was sent to Mekka, as will be mentioned in its place.