The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 27.5

27.5

Muhammad Shafi‘a, Bakhshi of Multan, had the title of Khan conferred on him. I gave leave to Sharif, Vakil of my fortunate son Shah Parwiz, to go with all possible haste, and bring my son to wait on me with the army of Behar, and writing a gracious farman with my own hand I urged him to come. On this day Mir Miran, the grandson of Shah Ni‘matu-llah, died suddenly. I hope that he will be among the pardoned. A raging elephant threw down the huntsman Mirza Beg and killed him: I assigned his duties to Imam-wirdi. As in consequence of the weakness that came over me two years ago and still continues, heart and brain do not accord, I cannot make notes of events and occurrences. Now that Mu‘tamid K. has come from the Deccan, and has had the good fortune to kiss the threshold, as he is a servant who knows my temperament and understands my words, and was also formerly entrusted with this duty, I gave an order that from the date which I have written he shall hereafter write them with his own hand, and attach them to my Memoranda. Whatever events may occur hereafter he should note after the manner of a diary, and submit them for my verification, and then they should be copied into a book.