The Rashīdī History 50.10

50.10

12. [No 12th mansab is mentioned in any of the texts]. Such were the twelve prerogatives [mansab] for which a firmán was granted to Amir Khudáidád, after whose death they descended to his son Amir Muhammad Shah Kurkán. When this latter died, they devolved on Amir Sayyid Ali Kurkán, the son of Muhammad Shah's brother, and after Sayyid Ali to Muhammad Haidar Mirza Kurkán his son, and after him to his son Muhammad Husain Mirza Kurkán, father of the present writer Muhammad Haidar, known familiarly as Mirza Haidar. After the martyrdom of my father, my uncle, Sayyid Muhammad Mirza, attached himself to Sultán Ash-Shahid—Sultán Said Khán; the Khan Said Shahid confirmed all these privileges to my uncle. The particulars of the matter are recorded in the Second Part of this Tarikh-i-Rashidi. These privileges (that is to say, the first [seven] of them) were in force from before the year 625 of the Hajra, which is the date of Chingiz Khán, down to the death of the Khan and the murder of my uncle, the date of which was the 1st of Moharram, 940 of the Hajra. When this calamity took place and the Khanship came to Sultan Rashid, the customs of our forefathers were exchanged for other, and very different, practices.