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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 13.4.3

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 13.4.3

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13.4.3

On the 1st of Isfandarmuz, corresponding with the 10th Muharram, 1023 (20th February, 1614), I left Ajmir to hunt nilgaw, and returned on the 9th. I halted at the fountain of Hafiz Jamal, two kos from the city, and passed the night of Friday there. At the end of the day I entered the city. In these twenty days ten nilgaw had been killed. As the good service of Khwaja Jahan and the smallness of his force for the defence and government of Agra and that neighbourhood were brought to my notice, I increased his mansab by 500 personal and 100 horse. On the same day Abu-l-fath Dakhani came from his jagir and waited on me. On the 3rd of the same month news came of the death of Islam Khan; he had died on Thursday, the 5th Rajab, in the year 1022 (21st August, 1613). In one day, without any previous illness, this inevitable event occurred. He was one of those born and brought up in the house (house-born). The naturally good disposition and knowledge of affairs that showed themselves in him were seen in no one else. He ruled Bengal with entire authority, and brought within the civil jurisdiction of the province countries that had never previously come under the sway of any of the jagirdars or into the possession of any of the Chiefs of the State. If death had not overtaken him he would have done perfect service.