Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.43.3

78.43.3

At this time he confided the government of the Panjāb to Sa'īd Khān Moghul, and appointed Qāzī ‘Alī Baghdādī (who is the grandson of Mīr Qāzī Husain Maibuzī) to rearrange the boundaries of the lands given as Madad-i Ma'āsh and Aymah in the Punjab and elsewhere, which had been encroached upon. He had orders to abolish the old boundaries and re-measure the enclosures, and to put them all together into one village. Thus an exact distinction was made between the different grant-lands of the empire, and all this was done in spite of Shaikh ‘Abdunnabī, and the dishonesty of his subordinates. Thence the Emperor set out on his return to Fatḥpūr. And near to Khizrābād Sādhūrah on the 5th of Jamādā’-s-sānī in the aforesaid year the Emperor embarked on board ship and the Amīrs and nobles of the kingdom also went on board a vessel to accompany him, but the army went by land. And on the 29th of this month the Emperor arrived at Dihlī. During the first part of the month Rajab he disembarking from the water-boat and mounted a land-boat (which is a figurative expression for a desert-traversing steed), and on the 5th of this month he reached Ajmir and attended the festival held at the tomb of the Saint. The next day at the same hour he started for the Imperial Palace, and travelling each day 50 cosses, he arrived at day-break on Friday the 9th. The compiler of these pages, who had come from Basawar to meet him, paid his respects to him at that time, and presented (P.