The Book of Akbar 192.5

192.5

Mir Ghaznavi said he was in his quarters. The Mirza said “Good, let a camel-load of fruit be taken to him from the commissariat (rikab-khana); I am coming too.” At night he and one or two clerks examined in his tent some of the things which had been brought from the royal stores (sarkar); they wrote them down and the state of affairs was exactly as Bairam Khan had conjectured and had represented. Next day at breakfast time (about 9 a.m.) he had his drums beaten and moved from his quarters to the royal encampment. He alighted at the door of his Majesty Jahanbani’s residence (daulatkhana) and had all the men, one by one, small and great, arrested. He made over Tardi Beg Khan to Shah Walad, and he put all the unfaithful servants in charge of his own men and took them off to Qandahar. Many of them he destroyed by hardships and torments, and from Tardi Beg Khan he took all his hoard so that he soon got the retribution of his deeds. But no, no! how could this be retribution for such crimes? if we called this typhoon of evils one revolution (girdi) in the descending of retribution, it would still not be appropriate. Verse. If a wicked and ill-fated man Become good by a teacher's instruction. In the end the mystery is explained For then his true nature is revealed.