The Book of Akbar 337.2.7

337.2.7

When his world-conquering mind was free from the affairs of the Panjab he spent the four months and fourteen days, during which Lahore was an object of envy to heaven from the splendour of the victorious army, in repose and pleasure: outwardly he wore the guise of one who did not attend to affairs, in reality he was deeply interested, and was testing the loyal. When the officers of the Caliphate had settled matters, the government of Lahore was entrusted to Husain Khan, sister’s son of Mahdi Qasim Khan, and the victorious standards advanced in an auspicious hour, on 25 Azar, Divine month, corresponding to Tuesday 15 Safar 965, (7 December 1557) towards the capital of Delhi. Among the events which happened while the army was encamped at Jalandhar was the marriage of the Khan-Khanan Bairam Khan with the cupola of chastity Salima Sultan Begum. The account of this is as follows. H.M. Jahanbani Jannat Ashiyani had during the time of his rule betrothed that veil of chastity, who was his sister’s son, and daughter of M. Nuru-d-din Muhammad, to Bairam Khan, the arrangement being that he would make over the unique pearl, who was distinguished for illustrious lineage and noble qualities (nasab u hasab) among the chaste ladies of the court, to Bairam Khan, after the conquest of India. This promise remained as a pledge till a fitting opportunity.