Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.27.1

78.27.1

In this year a lofty college and high and spacious palaces were built on the road to Ajmir. And the cause of this was as follows: His Majesty’s extreme devotion induced him every year to go on a pilgrimage to that city, and so he ordered a palace to be built at every stage between Agrah and that place, and a pillar to be erected and a well sunk at every coss. Ever so many hundreds of stags’ horns, which the Emperor had killed during the course of his life were placed on these pillars as a memorial to the world. And Mil-shakh “Mile-horn” gives the date. Would that instead of these he had ordered gardens and caravansarais to be made! In this year at the instigation of Shahbaz Khan Kambu the custom of branding the government horses came into practice. And with one stroke of the pen he commanded the appointment of tax-gatherers throughout the whole empire, and that lands should be held directly from the Crown, as shall be narrated, if God (He is exalted!) will. In the latter part of the month Çafar of the year nine hundred and eighty-two (982) the Emperor embarked on board the crocodile-prowed vessel with the intention of conquering Bengal.