The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.5.5

22.5.5

The parganas of Mau and Mihrl (?) (text has Maud Mihri), which previously to this had been granted to Raja Baso, and afterwards continued to his rebel son Suraj Mal, were now bestowed on Jagat Singh, his brother, who had not obtained the tika (mark of royal succession), and I gave the pargana of Jammu to Raja Sangram. On Monday, the 1st of Urdibihisht, I went to the house of Khurram, and entered his bath-house, and when I came out he presented his offerings. Of these I accepted a trifle in order to please him. On Thursday, the 4th, Mir Jumla was promoted to the mansab of 2,000 personal and 300 horse. On Sunday, the 7th, I rode to the village of Chardara, which is the native country of Haidar Malik, to hunt partridges. In truth this is a very pleasant spot of ground, and has flowing streams and lofty plane-trees. At his request I gave it the name of Nurpur (city of light). On the road there was a tree called halthal; when one takes one of the branches and shakes it, the whole of the tree comes into movement. The common people believe that this movement is peculiar to that tree. By chance in the said village I saw another tree of the same kind, which was in similar movement, and I ascertained that it was common to that species of tree, and not confined to one tree. In the village of Rawalpur, 2½ koss from the city towards Hindustan, there is a plane-tree, burnt in the inside.