The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 6.4.2
The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 6.4.2
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6.4.2
jumping) mouse, which in the Hindi tongue they call galahri (squirrel) and said that mice would not frequent any house in which this animal was. On this account they call this animal the master of mice. As I had never seen one before, I ordered my painters to draw a likeness of it. It is larger than a mongoose. On the whole it is very like a civet cat. Having appointed Ahmad Beg Khan to punish the Afghans of Bangash, I ordered 'Abdu-r-Razzaq Ma'muri, who was in Attock, to take 2,000,000 rupees under the charge of Mohan Das, son of Raja Bikramajit, with him, and divide it among the auxiliaries of the aforesaid army. One thousand musketeers were also ordered to accompany this army.