The Book of Akbar 354.5

354.5

This faction became intoxicated by power, and being unhelped by sound ideas, it daily became worse. But so long as the wickedness of those oppressors did not exceed all bounds, H.M’s sacred soul was not affected by the mean nature of his allowances, for the kingdom of the Lord of the Age was withheld from him and distributed among his (Bairam Khan’s) flatterers, and as H.M. Jahanbani Jannat Ashiyani had given Bairam Khan the name of Atiliq, and as H.M. (Akbar) often called him Khan Baba, as it is the custom of young monarchs to call old men Baba (father), he magnanimously observed the meaning of the phrase and overlooked his improper acts. He was eager about travelling and hunting, and kept the head of surrender on the ground of well-pleasing (to God), and worshipped the incomparable Deity, until, at last, things came beyond bounds, on account of ill-fated, maladroit flatterers such as Wali Beg Zul-qadr and Shaikh Gadai Kambo. He (Bairam) took ruinous