Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.6.7

77.6.7

On the 20th of Jumada-s-sani in the year 967 the Emperor crossed the river Jumna on a hunting expedition. And some malevolent speakers, who were jealous of the absolute authority which the Khan Khanan enjoyed as the Vakil, and especially Adham Khan (who on account of his being the son of Mahum Anka held the post nearest to his person), and Sadiq Muhammad Khan and others, seized the opportunity of misrepresenting to the Emperor certain words of the Khan Khanan. And in fact the Emperor himself (because he had not absolute power in his own kingdom, and sometimes (P. 36) had no voice in some of the transactions relating to expenses of the Exchequer, and because there was no privy purse at all, and the servants of the Emperor had but poor fiefs, and were kept in the depths of poverty, while the Khan Khanan’s were in ease and luxury) wished that the circle about him should be put on a different footing. But he had no power to accomplish this, until, in accordance with the saying “When God wills a thing, its causes are at hand”, circumstances combined to bring about the desired result : — “When the subject-matter is collected, Then the act of verse-making is easy.”