Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.4.7

77.4.7

And on the 17th of the sacred month of Muḥarram in the year 965, which coincides with the 3rd year from the Accession, the royal train adorned the city of Āgra. And in this year took place the appointment, removal, rise, and fall of Pīr Muḥammad Khān: and this is how it came about. Pīr Muḥammad Khān from being a Mullā had become an Amīr, and had been advanced to such a degree, that he became closer and opener of every important affair of state, and finance, as vicegerent of the Khān Khānān. All the Pillars of the State used to go to his house, and but few obtained admittance. His opulence had reached to such a pitch that one day, in the course of going from Dihlī to Āgra, when the Khān Khānān went on an hunting expedition with Pīr Muḥammad Khān, the Khān Khānān asked his private purveyors: “Is there no provision in store, for we are hungry?” and Pīr Muḥammad Khān on the spur of the moment said: “If you will be pleased to alight, whatever may happen to be at hand shall be served.” So the Khān Khānān with his suit alighted under a tree, and 3000 drinking cups, and 700 porcelain dishes of various colours were brought out from the travelling-stores of Pīr Muḥammad Khān. Though the Khān Khānān was astonished, he let no sign of his astonishment escape him, but great jealousy found its way into his heart— “Perhaps in this place you may chance to fail to see, How many envious foes, and jealous friends there be.”