The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 15.5.2

15.5.2

On the 7th of the month of Day, when I was coming back from Pushkar and returning to Ajmir, on the way forty-two wild pigs were taken. On the 20th, Mir Miran came and waited on me. A summary of his circumstances and of his family is now written. On the side of his father he is the grandson of Mir Ghiyasu-d-din Muhammad Mir Miran, son of Shah Ni'matu-llah Wali. During the reigns of the Safawi kings the family had attained to great respect, so that Shah Tahmasp gave his own sister Janish Khanim to Shah Ni'matu-llah, and so on account of his being a great Shaikh and of his being an instructor he was made a relative and a son-in-law (of kings). On the side of his mother he was the daughter's son of Shah Isma'il Khuni (Isma'il II, the Bloody). After the death of Shah Ni'matu-llah, his son Ghiyasu-d-din Muhammad Mir Miran received great consideration, and the late Shah (Tahmasp) gave to his eldest son in marriage a daughter from the royal family. He gave the daughter of the above-mentioned Shah Isma'il to another son of his, Khalilu-llah, to whom Mir Miran was born. The aforesaid Mir Khalilu-llah, seven or eight years before this, had come from Persia and waited on me at Lahore. As he belonged to a high and saintly family, I was much interested in his affairs, and gave him a mansab and a jagir, and honoured and cherished him.