The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 13.3.8

13.3.8

As it is a fixed hunting-place, I every day mounted to go hunting, and in these few days 158 antelopes, male and female, and other animals were killed. On the 25th of the month I marched from Amanabad. On the 31st, corresponding with the 8th Ramazan, Khwaja Abu-l-hasan, whom I had sent for from Burhanpur, came and waited on me, and presented as offerings 50 muhrs, 15 jewelled vessels, and an elephant, which I placed in my private stud. On the 2nd Aban, corresponding with the 10th Ramazan, news came of the death of Qilij Khan. He was one of the ancient servants of the State, and obtained the mercy of God in the 80th year of his age. He was employed at Peshawar in the duty of keeping in order the Afghans full of darkness. His rank was 6,000 personal and 5,000 horse. Murtaza Khan Dakhani was unrivalled in the art of patta-bazi, which in the language of the Dakhanis they call yaganagi, and the Moguls shamshir-bazi, 'sword-play' (fencing). For some time I studied it with him. At this time I exalted him with the title of Warzish Khan (Exercise-Khan). I had established a custom that deserving people and dervishes should be brought before me every night, so that I might bestow on them, after personal enquiry into their condition, land, or gold, or clothes.