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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 7.2.4

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 7.2.4

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7.2.4

and he yesterday came and waited on me. On the 22nd, Asaf Khan, made me an offering of a ruby of the weight of seven tank, which Abu-l-qasim, his brother, had bought in the port of Cambay for 75,000 rupees. It is of a beautiful colour and well-shaped, but to my belief is not worth more than 60,000 rupees. Great faults had been committed by Dulip Ray, son of Ray Ray Singh, but as he took refuge with my farzand Khan Jahan his offences were pardoned, and I knowingly and purposely passed over his delinquencies. On the 24th the sons of Khankhanan, who had followed after him, arrived and waited on me and produced as an offering the sum of 25,000 rupees. On the same day the said Khan offered 90 elephants. On Thursday, the 1st Jumada-s-sani, the feast of my solar year was celebrated in the house of Maryam-zamani. Some of the money I divided among the women, and an order was given that the balance should be distributed to the poor of the hereditary kingdoms. On the 4th of the month I ordered the Diwans to give a jagir, according to his rank, of 7,000 rupees to Khan A'zam. On this day a female antelope in milk was brought that allowed itself to be milked with ease, and gave every day four seers of milk. I had never seen or heard of anything of the kind before. The milk of the antelope, of the cow, and the buffalo in no way differs. They say it is of great use in asthma.