The Rashīdī History 239.12

239.12

When this news reached the ears of Kamran Mirza, he resolved to march [at once] for Kandahar. Leaving the whole of Hindustan and its dependencies in my charge, and giving me entire authority over all his officials and nobles — setting me, in fact, over the whole of the affairs of his kingdom — he proceeded to Kandahar. On reaching this place, the emissaries of Shah Tahmasp gave the fort up to him peacefully, and returned to Irak. This journey [of Kamran Mirza] lasted rather more than a year, during which period I did all that was possible to discharge my duties, in the administration of the State. I attended carefully to collecting taxes, suppressing revolt, protecting the frontiers and establishing Islam, so that when Kamran Mirza returned, in the full glow of victory, to his capital Lahur, he raised my salary from fifteen to fifty laks and distinguished me among my peers, by his favours. One lak of Hindustan is worth twenty thousand shahrukhis. A current shahrukhi is worth one mithkal of silver.