The Akbarī Generations 88.1

88.1

The beginning of this year corresponded with Saturday, 6th Jumada-l akhir, 1000 H. [Usual rejoicings at Lahore.] Jalala the sectary, who had fled to 'Abdu-lla Khan [in Badakhshan], now returned, and again engaged in revolt and robbery. On New Year's Day Ja'far Beg Asaf Khan, the bakhshi, was named to lead an army against him in communication with Muhammad Kasim Khan, governor of Kabul. I, the author, was appointed to the post of bakhshi. At the end of Sha'ban, Zain Khan Koka, who had been sent to settle the country of Swat and Bajaur, and to root out those Afghans who had escaped the sword, was ordered to march and exterminate Jalala.