The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 10.1.5

10.1.5

When Khusru arrived at Mathura, he met Hasan Beg Khan Badakhshi, who had received favours from my father, and was coming from Kabul to wait upon me. The Badakhshis are by nature quarrelsome and rebellious, and when Khusru, with his two or three hundred men, fell in with him, Khusru made him commander of his men. Every one whom they met on the road they plundered, and took from him his horse or goods. Merchants and travellers were pillaged, and wherever these insurgents went, there was no security for the women and children. Khusru saw with his own eyes that a cultivated country was being wasted and oppressed, and their atrocities made people feel that death was a thousand times preferable. The poor people had no resource but to join them. If fortune had been at all friendly to him, he would have been overwhelmed with shame and repentance, and would have come to me without the least apprehension. It is well known how I pardoned his offences, and with what great kindness and gentleness I treated him, so as to leave no ground for suspicion in his breast. When, during the days of my father, he was incited by designing men to entertain improper aspirations, he knew that the fact had been communicated to me, but he showed no trust in my kindness. His mother even, in the days when I was a prince, being grieved by his very unseemly acts, and by the unkindness of her younger brother Madhu Singh, took poison and died. How can I describe her excellences and good nature!