Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.11.1

79.11.1

He married him to the younger daughter of Muzaffar Khan, and treating him with regal pomp associated him in the wazirship with Rajah Todar Mal. And he, entering boldly into negotiations with the Rajah, came to an agreement with him. He became devoted to teaching the children of the Amirs, and every day would go to the houses of the courtiers, and would act the elementary teacher, first of all to the servant of Hakim Abu-l-Fath, and at another time to the son of Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl, and to other children of Amirs of seven or eight years of age, and even younger, and taught them to point, and to draw straight lines and curves, and even taught them the Alphabet: — “In the hands of children new to instruction Do not place a tablet of astronomical calculations. A horse, which is of Arab breed, Do not mark with a Grecian brand.” Putting a gun on his shoulder and a belt of ammunition round his waist, like a Runner, he used to accompany the Emperor at his stirrup in the chase, and all the glory of the knowledge, which he had not already lost, he utterly trampled in the dust. But in spite of all this want of dignity, and vileness, and baseness, he practised such heroism in bluff honesty, that no Rustam could have surpassed. The date of his arrival is given by the hemistich: — “Shah Fath-ullah Imam of saints.”