Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.13.5

12.13.5

Nor was the Deputy-Governor himself without his apprehensions on that account, as he had not the least connection with that General ; and the necessity of providing for his own honour, dictated the propriety of seeking out some mediator. Luckily for him, he now recollected that Murid-qhan, the nobleman sent from Court, and relegated by Aaly-verdy-qhan at Azim-abad, was a Seyd of the race of the Tebatebas, as well as my honoured father himself ; and as this circumstance had soon produced an acquaintance which had occasioned much intercourse, and then a strict intimacy, he was thought by my father the fittest person for the office of introductor and mediator with Abul-mansur-qhan : for he was himself a Lord of the presence, and had been at Delhi a great friend of Abul-mansur-qhan's. To Murid-qhan, therefore, he disclosed his apprehensions in a distant indirect manner ; and this nobleman having quieted his mind on that head, took upon himself the task of introducing him to that General. With that view he quitted the city, and went to meet that new comer, from whose camp he in a few days wrote to my father to inform him "that he might come by all means, without any fear and without giving himself the least uneasiness on what he had so much apprehended." This letter was accompanied by one from the General himself, which was conceived in terms full of kindness, and expressed a desire to see him.