Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.13.6

12.13.6

The Deputy Governor, encouraged by these letters, advanced as far as Monir, where he paid his respects to the General as he was passing, by whom he was received and spoke to with much kindness and affability ; after which he came with his retinue to Azim-abad, where one of Abul-mansur-qhan's first order was, to clear the castle of every thing and person belonging to the Governor-General, Zin-eddin-ahmed-qhan. He had already sent a guard of Moghuls to take possession of the gates ; so that it became impossible to bring anything out of the Governor's lodgings. However, when night came on, my father sent me with a number of trusty men, who found means to bring together in one place the furniture and things belonging to his master ; from whence they were carried with silence and precaution out of the castle to a house that had been appropriated to that service, but from whence it became necessary to carry them farther again into a house close to our own lodgings, where they remained safe. The next day Abul-mansur-qhan made a pompous entry into Azim-abad ; and without stopping anywhere, he repaired to the castle, where he placed a number of his own men, after having taken a slight survey of it ; from thence he went to perform his devotions at the mausoleum of his maternal-uncle, (monument that goes by the name of Saadet-qhan's father) and after having religiously visited the place, and pronounced a short prayer, he returned to his camp, which had been pitched at Baky-poor.