The Book of Akbar 355.3

355.3

Kāmrān, and as the evil thoughts of the faction always put him forward, he, in accordance with the dictates of reason, sent for him from that side of the Jumna and took him with him on this hunting-party in which the game of his design fell into his hands, so that he might not be the staff of the inwardly blind ones of the stage of enmity and rebellion, or a voucher for the wayfarers in the desert of sedition. Certainly the idea was a good one, and it was carried out in accordance with H.M.’s inspiration. Next morning he arrived, under the guidance of fortune, at the town of Jalesar, and from there he went to Sikandra. Muhammad Bāqī Baqlānī father-in-law of Adham Khān was there. Māham Anaga had sent for him and confided the secret to him. That low-minded, inauspicious one sought exclusion from the bliss of meeting (Akbar), and not being content with this he sent news of the scheme to Bairām Khān; but as the time of the expiry of Bairām Khān’s sway was near at hand, and the rulers of the Shāhinshāh’s fortune had planned this divine contrivance, Bairām Khān regarded the report as old, idle tales and paid no heed to it. The sublime standards proceeded from there, hunting as they went, towards Kūl, and as His Highness Mariam Makānī was in Delhi and was in somewhat weak health, he made this his motive and went there. He came to the town of Khurjah and alighted at the Serai of Bahānkūl(?).