Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.26.4

78.26.4

On the 25th of this month the rite of circumcision was performed on their imperial highnesses the Emperor’s sons. And on the 22nd of the month Rajab the prince Sultan Salim received the tablet of instruction from the hand of the God-fearing Maulana Mir Kalan, the traditionalist of Herat (who was an angel in human form, and had been instructed by his reverence the paragon of traditionalists Mirak Shah bin Mir Jamal-ud-din), and learnt the lesson “In the name of the gracious and merciful God. The Merciful-One taught the Quran.” (P. 171) In this year the Emperor recalled Muzaffar Khan, who had been appointed governor of Sarangpur, and appointed him prime minister, and gave him in addition to his other titles that of Jumlat-ul-mulk. And the Emperor ordered the debts of Shaikh Muhammad of Bokhara, who was killed in the battle of Patan, and of Saif Khan, who fell in the last battle of Ahmadabad, to be paid out of the public treasury. They amounted to a lac of rupees. And in this year the Emperor presented a sword to Rajah Todarmal, when he brought with him a clear balance-sheet of the accounts of Gujrat. Then he sent him in conjunction with Lashkar Khan Bakhshi (whom most of the people of Hind call Sher Khan) to attempt the conquest of Bengal in the service of Mun‘im Khan, the Khan Khanan. To Shahr-ullah Kambui of Lahor he gave the title of Shahbaz Khan, and appointed him Mir-bakhshi, and this rhyme was sealed with his name:—