Intikhab-i Jahangir-Shahi 1.9

1.9

The next day the Emperor ordered that the Prince should be given in charge to Khan Jahan, to be kept in his custody, that he should receive surgical treatment, be allowed to come to pay his respects, and that a horse should be given to him to ride on. On Mahabat Khan’s representations, the Emperor for some days became more reserved in his demeanour towards the Begam. On the day the Khan took his leave from the camp at Pakhali, he again said that he had represented what fidelity and gratitude had suggested to him; and that His Majesty might listen to his counsel or not, as he thought best. The Emperor acted in some measure upon the advice of Mahabat Khan, till he arrived at Kashmir; but the influence of Nur Jahan Begam had wrought so much upon his mind, that if 200 men like Mahabat Khan had advised him simultaneously to the same effect, their words would have made no permanent impression upon him.