Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.30.2

79.30.2

The issue of the affair of Gosālah Banārasī, who was a catamite of “ a calf in bodily shape, and lowing,” was as follows: Through the intervention of Shaikh Abu-l-Faẓl he was brought into proximity to the Emperor, and by deceit and trickery getting himself made Krorī of Banāras he managed to leave the Court. He in company with Aḥmad the little Ṣūfī set his eyes on a certain prostitute, and having left a considerable sum of money with her appointed a guardian over her, and went away. When the overseers of the prostitutes and dancing-girls represented this to the Emperor, one night at the New Year’s assembly he allowed the matter to transpire, and took away the jagir of Two-Hundred from Ahmad Sufli, and Mulla Shah Muhammad, which they held conjointly in the skirts of the mountains, and recalled Gosalah of Banaras.