Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.34.7

78.34.7

taking his daughter with him in full confidence in God he travelled into Hind, alone and unattended. At several places the Afghans opposed his progress by force of arms; but the Mirza, showing the most intrepid bravery, and wounded with an arrow, after a hundred troubles arrived at the river Indus. Thence he sent two or three horsemen, men born in his house, with a petition to the Court. Then the Emperor sent 50,000 rupees and abundant other necessaries, and a team of horses of pure Arab breed by the hand of Agha Khan the treasurer to give the Mirza an honourable reception. And before this Rajah Bhagwan Das, governor of Lahor, in accordance with a farman had gone to the Indus to meet him, and was showing him day by day suitable hospitality. The Amirs and governors also of every parganna and town on the way, in accordance with the recognised laws of hospitality promoted his wish to go forward. In this manner they brought the Mirza [to the Court]. Meanwhile A‘zam Khan (who is also called Khan-i A‘zam) was sent for from Gujrat to appear at the Court, with which command he hastened to comply, and did homage at Fathpur on the 4th of Rajab in the year nine hundred and eighty-three (983). One day he broached the subject of the new regulations about branding horses, and the management of tax-collecting, and of contracting for the army, and of the distressed condition of agriculturists and other acts of oppression.