The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 13.1.7
The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 13.1.7
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13.1.7
Some of the money that was weighed I ordered to be given to the women and the deserving ones who had assembled in my mother's house. On the same day I increased by 1,000 the mansab of Murtaza Khan, so that it came to 6,000 personal and 5,000 horse. Khusrau Beg, a slave of Mirza Khan, came from Patna in the company of 'Abdu-r-Razzaq Ma'muri and waited on me, and Sardar Khan, brother of 'Abdu-llah Khan, obtained leave to go to Ahmadabad. An Afghan had brought from the Carnatic two goats that had pazahar (bezoar stones, an antidote against poison). I had always heard that an animal that has pazahar is very thin and miserable, but these goats were very fat and fresh. I ordered them to kill one of them, which was a female. Four pazahar stones became apparent, and this caused great astonishment.