The Rashīdī History 163.3

163.3

Everything in the way of money, as well as the valuable cloths and stuffs, had been carried off, but the houses were still full [of other things]. Two months after the flight of Mirza Aba Bakr, there were still great quantities of cuirasses and the like, lying about the houses and passages, that no one had cared to carry away. [Five couplets]. . . . Thus, all that Mirza Aba Bakr had, in the course of forty-eight years, amassed with infinite toil, and guarded with savage miserliness, he was finally obliged, with a thousand heart-rendings, to abandon ; while the Khán, with one stroke of his pen, gave it all over to a general sack, and during two months the dust thereof rose to the sky. [Verses]. . . . At the end of two months, every man returned safely — laden with plunder from different directions — and presented the Khán with tribute [pishkash] according to the quantity of booty he had taken. But the Khan, in order to win the hearts of his people, divided the property up into shares [suyurghal] in accordance with the old Moghul custom, and distributed it among his soldiers. I remember distinctly that some of the Amirs who had come from Karánghutágh, presented, besides arms [alát] and vases, an Andiján man of gold-dust. Now an Andiján man is sixty-four chdrik and a chdrik is 400 miskál. From this the extent of the rest of the booty may be conceived.