The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 28.6

28.6

The Khan-khanan and his son and many of the royal Amirs attached to the Deccan and Gujarat had come with him as companions on the road of rebellion and ingratitude. Musawi K. saw him at Fathpur, and showed him the royal orders, and it was settled that he should send his servant Qazi ‘Abdu-l-‘Aziz with him to Court to put his requests before me. He sent to Agra his servant Sundar, who was the ringleader of the people of error and the chief of the seditious, to take possession of the treasures and hidden wealth of those servants of the State who were at Agra. Amongst others he entered the house of Lashkar K., and seized Rs. 9,00,000. In the same manner, wherever he suspected there was property in the houses of other servants (of the Court), he stretched out his hand to seize it, and took possession of all that he found. When nobles like Khan-khanan, who had been distinguished with the rank of Atalik and arrived at the age of seventy years, made their faces black with rebellion and ingratitude, how could one complain of others ? It may be said that his very nature was seditious and ungrateful. His father (Bairam K.) at the end of his life behaved in the same unbecoming way towards my reverend father. He, following the example of his father, at his age made himself accursed and rejected to all eternity. In the end a wolf’s cub becomes a wolf Although he grow up with man. (Sa‘di.) On this day Musawi K. arrived with ‘Abdu-l-‘Aziz, the envoy of Bi-daulat.