The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.6.5

22.6.5

informed me of the real state of matters, I took away his mansab and jagir, and cast him out of my presence, and gave the Sayyids leave to return to Lahore in all honour and respect. On Mubarak-shamba (Thursday), the 8th of Khurdad, I'tiqad Khan was promoted to the mansab of 4,000 personal and 1,500 horse, and Sadiq Khan to that of 2,500 personal and 1,400 horse. Zainu-l-‘abidin, son of the deceased Asaf Khan (Ja'far), was promoted to be Bakhshi of Ahadis. Raja Bir Singh Deo Bandila raised his head of honour with the high mansab of 5,000 personal and horse. In Kashmir the most juicy (?) fruit is the ashkan (?) (ashkam in the MSS.). It is subacid (mai-khush), smaller than the alu balu (sour cherry), much better flavoured, and more delicate. When drinking wine, one cannot eat more than three or four alu balu, but of these one can take as many as a hundred in twenty-four hours, especially of the paiwandi (?) sort. I ordered that the ashkan should hereafter be called the khushkan. It grows in the hills of Badakhshan and in Khurasan; the people there call it jamdani. The largest of them weigh 1 misqal. The shah-alu (cherry), on the 4th Urdibihisht, appeared of the size of a grain of pulse; on the 27th it reddened, and on the 15th Khurdad it was ripe, and new fruit (nau-bar) had formed (?). The shah-alu (cherry), to my taste, is better than most fruits. Four trees had borne fruit in the Nur-afza garden.