The Book of Akbar 337.2.2

337.2.2

The Khan-Khanan under the influence of the Sultan of imaginings again returned to the old story and began to suspect Shamsu-d-din Muhammad Khan Atka. He said to him: “Although the countenance of my loyalty and devotion to the sublime family be free from the stain of deceit or dissimulation and know that H.M.’s glance of grace and kindness to myself is without flaw and so I have no fear of any breach in the pillars thereof, yet as H.M. occasionally treats me with disfavour I believe this must come from your contrivances and calumnies. What have I done that you should gird up the loins of hostility against me and that in thirsting for my blood you should turn the sacred mind against me? And should even go so far as to attempt my life?” Shamsu-d-din was troubled by this attack, and having collected all his relatives and dependants he went before the Khan-Khanan and made protestations, accompanied with solemn oaths, that he had never opened his mouth to speak ill of him, and that he never would do so. At last the Khan-Khanan came to his senses, and his anxiety abated somewhat.