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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 6.5.2

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 6.5.2

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6.5.2

A bay Arab horse, which 'Adil Khan, the ruler of the Deccan, had sent to me, ran better than all the other horses. At this time the son of Mirza Sanjar Hazara and the son of Mirza Mashi, who were the chief leaders of the Hazaras, came to wait on me. The Hazaras of the village of Mirdad produced before me two rangs that they had killed with arrows. I had never seen a rang of this size; it was larger by 20 per cent. than a large markhur (?). News came that Shah Beg Khan, the governor of Qandahar, had reached the parganah of Shor, which is his jagir. I determined to give Kabul to him and return to Hindustan. A petition came from Raja Birsing-deo that he had made a prisoner of his nephew, who had been creating a disturbance and had killed many of his men. I ordered him to send him to the fort of Gwalior to be imprisoned there. The parganah of Gujrat in the Panjab Sarkar I bestowed on Shir Khan, the Afghan. I promoted Chin Qilij, son of Qilij Khan, to the rank of 800 personal and 500 horse. On the 12th I sent for Khusrau and ordered them to take the chains off his legs that he might walk in the Shahr-ara garden. My fatherly affection would not permit me to exclude him from walking in the aforesaid garden. I transferred the fort of Attock and that neighbourhood from Ahmad Beg to Zafar Khan. To Taj Khan, who was nominated to beat back the Afghans of Bangash, I gave 50,000 rupees.