Padshah-namah 69: Aurangzeb sent to Balkh.
Bádsháh-náma, of 'Abdu-l Hamíd Lahorí (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 69
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[Text, vol. ii. p. 627.] On the 24th Zi-l hijja, 1056, the Emperor bestowed the countries of Balkh and Badakhshan on Aurangzeb, and increased his mansab to 15,000 personal and ten thousand horse, eight thousand being do-aspahs or sih-aspahs. * * He was directed to proceed to Peshawar, and on the arrival of spring to march to Balkh, in company with Amiru-l Umara 'Ali Mardan Khan, and a body of Rajputs, who had left Balkh and Badakhshan in disgust, and had come to Peshawar, where they were stopped by an Imperial order directing the officers at Atak not to allow them to cross the Indus.