The Book of Akbar 54.2

54.2

Accordingly her Majesty, Maryam-makānī, Qudsī-arkān (Pillar of Purity) having sent for that adorner of Heaven’s table (i.e., celestial caterer) placed in an auspicious moment, the child-treasure in her hopeful bosom. But as the period of pregnancy of this purely-framed nurse was not yet fulfilled, her Majesty ordered that receptacle of chastity, Dāyā Bhāwal—a special servant of his Majesty Jahānbānī, and distinguished for virtue and purity—to suckle the infant. It appears that first of all, he accepted the milk of his royal mother. Then Fakhr-u-nisā, wife of Nadīm Koka was honoured by the charge, then Bhāwal Anaga, then the wife of Khwāja Ghāzī, temperament so that the familiar with who came to India. A. F. calls him Khwaja Ghazi Tabrizi and says that he was distinguished for his knowledge of accounts and made a diwan by Humayun, and was subsequently, for a long time, excluded from Court and only returned at the end of his life to the Court of Akbar when his intellect was enfeebled by age. Bayazid calls him Khwaja Ghazi Shirazi and says, Humayun made him a diwan when he was in the Takht-i-Sulaiman country. The fact of his long exclusion from Court and of his being entered in the Grandees of the Ain or of the Tabaqat, might explain, supposing him Maham Anaga's husband, (see note at end of chapter) why no mention is made of him in that relation.