The Book of Akbar 258: CHAPTER XLVII.

258

His Majesty Jahanbānī, till false rumours were spread and the corselet (jiba) was sent. The fort was taken by dint of hundreds of false promises and by stating lying tales. The new fruit of the garden of creation and nosegay of the spring of horizons, viz., His Majesty the Shahinshah who was perfuming the nostrils of the age, and from whose brows of fortune there radiated the light of the Divine Khilāfat, was made a prisoner. But the Divine protection, which is ever near him, watched in the old fashion over that prince, outwardly small but grand in reality.
M. Kāmrān having taken possession of Kabul, set about arranging his affairs and organising his army. He gave in fief to M. ‘Askarī, Jūī Shāhī which is now known as Jalālābād, in accordance with the auspicious title of the Shahinshah. It is a delightful spot and a partition (barzakh) between India and foreign countries, being replete with the advantages of the one and exempt from the evils of the other. It was Mun‘im Khān who gave it its holy appellation and who colonised it. Ghaznīn and its territory were given to Qarāca Khān and Ghūrband and its neighbourhood to Yāsīn Daulat. In this manner fiefs and grants were made to his followers. The royal servants were laid hold of, Khw. Sl. ‘Alī the dīwān being imprisoned, and the hand of oppression was opened and money and goods were taken from him and used for evil purposes. But the Mīrzā was ever in dread of the approach of the royal army, and could not pass his days in tranquillity. The direction of affairs was with Qarāca Khān and Khw. Qāsim the Mīr Buyūtāt, and by means of oppression and tyranny materials which in fact were no materials were got together, forgetting the verse :—
Verse.
Who take dirams by force and give gold for ornamentation. Dig up the foundation of the mosque and gild the palace-roof.
About three months were spent in this way till the sound of the approach of His Majesty Jahānbānī from Badakhshān rose high in the province of Kabul. The Mīrzā collected soldiers and zamindārs from the Hazaras and others and set off with a full equipment. He left Bābā Jujak and Mulla Shafai in Kabul, and took His Majesty the Shahinshah,—the marks of auspiciousness in whom were apparent, and were acknowledged by small and great and by friend and foe,—with him, either to bring himself good fortune or for greater security. Nor was he aware that God, the giver of life and adorner of the world, had assigned the benign influences of both worlds which were implanted in this holy personality to his friends, not to his foes. What lustre does antimony give to the blind?
Now that this parenthetical narrative has been completed, we must return to our subject and briefly describe the remaining occurrences of His Majesty Jahanbani.