The Book of Akbar 374.3

374.3

After the victory, all the well-wishers, who were not present at the battle, and whose services are known to your Majesty, received tenfold presents and favours. As yet no one had asked after the well-wishers who were in the engagement, when Jan Muhammad Sultan Bahasūdi, who was two days in Jalandhar fort, was recommended and received the title of Khan. Besides him, everyone has received presents and pensions tenfold more than their services. When after all these this well-wisher and his son Yūsuf Muhammad, who wielded his sword in that great battle, had their turn, the favour shown to them was the order of the first day that the name “Atga” should appear on the firmān, (i.e., bulletin of victory)! Protector of the world! this well-wisher regards the Bega (Maham Anaga) as a mother, and says no evil of her. May God make lawful what I am about to say! This well-wisher took his life in his hand for the behoof of your Majesty, and taking with him his twelve-year old son encountered Bairam Khan and his ten to twenty relatives, servants and sultāns. None of the great officers came from their parganas to help me, and the men who were with me acted in a way which Bairām Khān has probably represented. In such a manner did they behave to this old servant. All the body-guards (qūrcīān) of Bairām Khān, who were in your Majesty’s service as spies, have by your Majesty’s favour received titles, and grants of two or three krors.