The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 9.5.3

9.5.3

On Saturday, the 19th Zl-l-hijja, I fished again. This time about 330 fish were caught. On the night of Wednesday, the 28th of the same month, I encamped at Rupbas. As this was one of my fixed hunting-places and there was an order that no one should hunt in the neighbourhood, a great number of antelope had come together in the desert there, so much so that they came into the inhabited parts and were not subject to any kind of molestation. I hunted for two or three days in those desert plains, and shot, and hunted with cheetahs many antelopes. As the hour for entering the city was near, making two halts on the way, I alighted on the night of Thursday, the 2nd Muharram, in the year 1020 (17th March, 1611), at the garden of 'Abdu-r-Razzaq Ma'muri, which is near, in fact close to, the city. On this night many of the servants of the Court, such as Khwaja Jahan, Daulat Khan, and a number who had remained in the city, came and waited on me. Iraj also, whom I had sent for from the Subah of the Deccan, had the honour of kissing the threshold. I stayed in that garden also on the Friday. On that day 'Abdu-r-Razzaq presented his own offerings. As this was the last day for hunting, an order was given that the duration of the hunt and the number of animals killed should be counted up to me. The time of the hunt was from the 9th of the month of Azar to the 29th Isfandarmuz of the 5th year, or three months and twenty days.