Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 103.1

103.1

Meean Munjoo Deccany is appointed minister. — Yekhlas Khan is pardoned, and permitted to return to court — he puts himself at the head of a party to oppose Meean Munjoo — The Beejapoor ambassador is insulted, and quits the court. — A war ensues. — The leaders of the opposite parties unite and march with the King to the Beejapoor frontier. — Meean Munjoo proposes to his colleague, Yekhlas Khan, that they should obtain peace, and unite with Ibrahim Adil Shah for the purpose of repelling the encroachments of Akbur Padshah of Dehly. — His proposal is overruled. — A battle is brought on through the intemperance of the King, who is killed, and his army defeated. — Meean Munjoo sends the King's only son Bahadur, an infant in arms, to the fort of Chawund — he brings a boy named Ahmud from the fort of Dowlutabad, and raises him to the throne. After the death of his father, Ibrahim Nizam Shah succeeded to the throne, and in conformity with his dying request, he appointed his father's tutor, Meean Munjoo Deccany, to be his prime minister. Upon his accession, Yekhlas Khan (though he had during the late reign opposed his sovereign in the field) now made overtures to obtain pardon; and the King and his new minister, taking into consideration the daring and ambitious character of Yekhlas Khan, thought it politic to grant it. He no sooner arrived at Ahmudnuggur than he began to collect a number of Abyssinians and Mowullids about his person;