The Book of Akbar 176.1

176.1

and the country was made desolate. Imbecile apprehensions and improper schemes passed into the minds of the Mirzas who were his Majesty’s companions,—such thoughts as might be entertained and impressed on the minds of the insincere—till at length M. Hindal, at the instigation of Yadgar Nasir Mirza who was always secretly in opposition, and by the stirring up of Qaraca Khan who held the government of Qandahar on M. Kamran’s behalf, set off and went to Qandahar. He also sent a man to Yadgar Nasir Mirza to tell him of his own departure, and to call upon him to do likewise. When his Majesty heard of this he went on Tuesday, 18th Jumada’l-awwal, 948 (September, 1541), to the quarters of Mir Abu’l-baqa and held a conference with him. He then sent him, under the most respectful circumstances, as an envoy to Yadgar Nasir Mirza, that he might bring him from the danger-spot of error to the straight path of rectitude. The Mir went and by judicious counsels brought the Mirza back from the path of opposition to the highway of concord, and by his faithful and truthful utterances withheld him from improper schemes. He settled that the Mirza should cross the river and acknowledge service, and should henceforth remain steadily in the fore-court of submission and devotion.