The Book of Akbar 218.5

218.5

Kamrān's orders brought out from there into the garden of Jalalu-d-dīn Beg which is near the Shahr-Ara garden. Bairam Khan embraced these two grandees in that garden and gladdened them by conveying to them the gifts and favours of the king and the Shāh. Taking leave from them he went to julga Siyah Sang, where Yadgar Nasir had settled, and gave him hopes of the pardon of his offences, and the forgetting of his faults, and of his receiving various royal favours. In like manner he visited and conveyed hopes to Ulugh Mīrza and other grandees, and gave them, as was proper, soothing messages. M. Kamran kept Bairam Khan under surveillance for more than a month, having neither the strength to resist, nor the grace to submit. He remained in these perplexities, until after much considerations he let him (Bairam) go after a month and a half. He also by entreaties prevailed upon her Highness Khanzada Begam to go to Qandahar ostensibly to persuade M. ‘Askarī, who, he pretended, was not under his influence, to make over Qandahār to his Majesty Jahanbani’s servants, but in reality in order that if things should go ill with him, who was holding out, and was maintaining the fort under M. Kamran's orders, and he should have to give up the fort, that cupola of chastity might be an intercessor for M. ‘Askarī and might procure him his liberty. As M. ‘Askarī had left the right path and in his devotion to M.