[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 143.6 # The Rashīdī History 143.6 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 143.6 - **Language:** English ### [143.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143.6) While in the service of my father and my uncle, I had these principles indelibly engraved upon my heart, and they used to make me perform numerous duties, that I might turn the advantages derived from them to the best possible account. What I learnt from my elders I now am teaching you, that you, in turn, may also profit by it." Till the age of twenty-four, I was employed in every kind of service, and all that the Khan gave me to do, both great things and small, I carried out single-handed. But if, even in the councils of the Amirs, in which I had my special place, an opportunity of some service presented itself to me, the Khán would forbid my performing it, saying: "In the battlefield you must remember your rank, so that you may not fall in the estimation of the people." When I was between twenty-four and twenty-five years of age, he bade me desist from all these services, and said: "All that I have given you to do, you have done well. Now you can return to your favourite pursuits." Thereafter, till the age of thirty, he entrusted to me the affairs of the army. But he caused me to be attended by men of judgment and experienced Amirs, and instructed me never to deviate from what they considered right, but to follow them in all matters. When several campaigns \[lashkar\] had been carried through in this way, he gave me leave to speak my mind in debates and plans of action. - [Previous: 143.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143.5) - [Next: 143.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143.7) - [Up: 143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.143.6) · Pramāṇa