The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 6.6.2

6.6.2

The cherry also is a fruit of pleasant flavour, and one can eat more of it than of other fruits ; I have in a day eaten up to 150 of them. The term shah-alu means gilas (cherry), which are obtainable in most places of the country, but since gilas is like gilas, which is one of the names of the chalpasa (lizard), my revered father called it shah-alu. The zard-alu paywandi is good, and is abundant. There is especially a tree in the Shahr-ara garden, that Mirza Muhammad Hakim, my uncle, planted, and is known as the Mirza'i. The apricots of this tree are quite unlike the apricots of other trees. The peaches also are very delicious and plentiful. They had brought some peaches from Istalif. I had them weighed in my presence, and they came exactly in weight to 25 rupees, which is 68 current misqal. Notwithstanding the sweetness of the Kabul fruits, not one of them has, to my taste, the flavour of the mango. The parganah of Mahaban was given as jagir to Mahabat Khan. 'Abdu-r-Rahim, paymaster of the Ahadis, was promoted to the rank of 700 personal and 200 horse. Mubarak Khan Sarwani was appointed to the faujdarship of the sarkar of Hisar. I ordered that Mirza Faridun Barlas should have a jagir in the Subah of Allahabad. On the 14th of the aforesaid month I gave Iradat Khan, brother of Asaf Khan, the rank of 1,000 personal and 500 horse, and presenting him with a special robe of honour and a horse, bestowed on him the paymastership of the Subah of Patna and Hajipur.