[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 77.6.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.6.1 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 77.6.1 - **Language:** English ### [77.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.6.1) In this year Jamal Khan, a ghulam of \[the late\] ‘Adali, who had become possessed of Chunar, sent a representative to court, to intimate that if they could send a man fitted to be trusted with the affair he would surrender to him the fortress, on which the Khan Khanan sent back, in company with Jamal Khan’s representative, Mihr ‘Ali Beg Silduz, (who afterwards attained the rank of Khan, and was made governor of the fortress of Chitor), with a farman containing friendly terms. And in those days I left home and, going from Basawar to Agra with the intention of pursuing my studies, made acquaintance with Mihr ‘Ali Beg, and remained at his house. And he greatly importuned my late teacher Shaikh Mubarak of Nagor (the mercy of God be upon him!), and my deceased father Shaikh Mulukshah (may he rest in peace!), to allow me to be his travelling companion, and carried the matter to such a pitch that he declared that he would lay aside the business of his journey, if I could not go with him. And both of these valued persons, whom I have named, in their generous friendship towards me, thinking it best for me to go, would take no refusal. So I, to gratify my teacher, although it was the height of the rainy season, and I was an inexperienced traveller, abandoning my studies, mounted the dangers of the journey. And passing through Kanouj, Lak’hnou, (P. - [Previous: 77.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.5.8) - [Next: 77.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.6.2) - [Up: 77.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.6.1) · Pramāṇa