The Book of Akbar 337.2.4

337.2.4

As the world-arranging God was about to reveal the majesty of the Shahinshah that it might come forth from the veil of acquiescence and personally regulate the distractions of the world, the screen over Bairam Khan’s actions, who was always boasting of his loyalty, began to lift, and he became a traveller on a roadless tract. One of the vagaries which most sensible men observed in him was that with and without leave he distributed the royal elephants among his confidential officers (khurd). He even seized some of the reserved royal elephants, which were a screen for H.M.’s glory, on the pretence that he would make them over to (fitting) men. The Khedive of the earth did not wish to submit to this tyranny but as actions have their final time, and that time had not yet arrived, he winked at the procedure and acquiesced in fate. Good God! What width of capacity! And what gentleness! And that too in early youth which is the time for violence, and is the beginning of the boiling over of the powers of rage. But what is marvellous in a great man whom the Creator takes under his protection? During the term that Lahore was made illustrious by the advent of H.M. the Shahinshah, Sultan Adam Gakkar came and did homage and was received with favour. As he had not come forward when the standards of H.M. Jahanbani Jinnat Ashiyani, had first come for the conquest of India, he had an apprehension in his heart.