The Book of Akbar 376.3.3

376.3.3

Haidar Girgan, to conquer Kashmir. As it is a proper part of the rules of the administration of justice and of world-sway that whenever a ruler engages in his own pleasures, and spends his time in gratifying his lusts, and does not attend to the cherishing of his subjects and to sympathising with the oppressed, and to overthrowing the oppressors, the Lord of the Age, to whom Almighty God has given power and made him the governor of the terrene and terrestrials, should for the sake of thanksgiving to God, strive to uproot that tyrant, and to make over the inhabitants of his country to the prudent and just-minded, and should consider that as the preamble of elect devotion; so, acting upon this principle, an order was issued this year that a force be put under the command of M. Qara Bahadir, a relative of M. Haidar, and one who was acquainted with the country, and that he be sent to conquer Kashmir. inasmuch as the disturbances by intriguing Kashmiris, and the injustice of Ghazi Khan, the ruler of Kashmir, had been brought to the royal ears. A large body of men were nominated to assist Qara Bahadir. At this time Ghazi Khan, the son of Kaci Cak, was the ruler of Kashmir, for the government thereof had come to him after his father. But the truth is that he was the son of Husain Cak the brother of Kaci Cak. When the measure of Husain Cak’s days was filled, Kaci Cak, either swayed by lust, or influenced by political considerations, took to himself his pregnant wife.