The Book of Akbar 372.3

372.3

He said that he was ashamed and downcast for what he had done, and was deserving of every kind of punishment. His heart was at rest as regarded the graciousness and glorious kindnesses of the Khedive of the age, but he was in trepidation on account of the Caghatai grandees and the other imperial servants. If Mun‘im Khan would come and give him assurance and make oaths and vows he could by his instrumentality come forth from the rebels and perform the prostration. Then, having got leave, he could spend the remainder of his life in holy places, and could seek in humiliation and self-abasement the amendment and atonement of his crimes. As the sea of beneficence was in effervescence, this request of his was also granted. The standards of fortune were pitched in the town of Hājīpūr which is near the daman-i-koh, and between the Satlaj and the Biah, and Mun‘im Khan, Khwājah Jahān, Ashraf Khan, Haji Muhammad Khan Sistani were sent to assure Bairām Khan by promises of favour and to bring him to do homage. The envoys went with a few men into those wild defilés where he had taken refuge. There was a rush (or a crowd) of the ‘zamindars, and with a chivalry (hamiyat) which is rooted among the zamindars of India, they stood determined to sacrifice their lives. The envoys threaded the defiles and entered the fort where Bairam Khan was. As soon as Bairam Khan saw Mun‘im Khan he became reassured, and knew that the message which they had brought from H.M. the Shahinshah was genuine.