The Book of Akbar 230: MARCH OF HIS MAJESTY JAHANBANI JANNAT-ASHIYANI’S ARMY FOR THE CONQUEST OF BADAKHSHAN, THE VICTORY OVER THAT COUNTRY, AND WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT TIME.

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When the disaffection of M. Sulaiman became confirmed, and it was made certain that he had twisted away his head from the burden of commands, and that the idea of sovereignty was paining it, and that he was inwardly troubled by this vain imagination, his Majesty Jahanbani, in the beginning of 953 (March 1546), turned the rein of intention towards Badakhshan. One of the Mirza’s rebellious acts was that after the taking of Kabul he laid hold of Khost and Andarab, which were in the possession of M. Kamran, and had been assigned to one of the royal servants. As moreover, by theory and practice the whole of Badakhshan did not belong to M. Sulaiman, his Majesty desired also to take away Qanduz and its dependencies and to make them over in fief to one of his followers, and bade him be contented with what his Majesty Giti-sitani Firdaus-makani had given to his father. When his Majesty’s dominions should be enlarged, his fief too would be increased. In consideration, however, of the Mirza’s circumstances Qanduz was left as it was. The Mirza ignorantly averted his face from his benefactor, and openly smote the door of opposition, and had the Khutba read in his own name. His Majesty resolved to extinguish the flames of disaffection. He left his Majesty the Shahinshah under God’s protection and set out in a propitious hour, and halted at Yurat Calak. He took M. ‘Askari along with him. He had anxieties about Yadgar Nasir Mirza, and when the army reached the Ulang of Qara Bagh he determined