The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 15.3.5

15.3.5

At the end of this month news came that the ruler of Iran had executed his eldest son Safi Mirza. This was a cause of great bewilderment. When I enquired into it they said that at Darash, which is one of the noted cities of Gilan, he ordered a slave of the name of Bihbud to kill Safi Mirza. The slave found an opportunity, early in the morning on the 5th of Muharram, in the year 1024 (25th January, 1615), when the Mirza was returning from the baths towards his house, and finished his affair for him with two wounds from a sword (sikkaki). After a great part of the day had passed, while his body lay between the water and the mud, Shaikh Bahau-d-din Muhammad, who was the best known man in the country for learning and holiness, and on whom the Shah had full reliance, reported the affair, and, obtaining leave to lift him up, took his corpse and sent it to Ardabil, where was the burial-ground of his ancestors. Although much enquiry was made of travellers from Iran, no one would say a word of this affair that satisfied my mind with regard to it. The killing of a son must have some powerful motive in order to do away with the disgrace of it. On the 1st of the month of Tir I gave an elephant of the name of Ranjit with its trappings to Mirza Rustam and another to Sayyid 'Ali Barha. Mirak Husain, a relation of Khwaja Shamsu-d-din, was appointed bakhshi and news-writer of the Subah of Behar, and took leave to go.