Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.16.8

12.16.8

and unable to support his brother's disgrace, he resolved to share his ill fortune. In vain did the Governor refuse to accept his resignation; in vain did he represent to him the consequences of his divesting himself of all employment. In vain did he speak and intreat, and sent others to speak and intreat in his name; the officer continued resolved to follow his brother. At last the Governor went to his lodgings, and said that he came to bring him away by force to his palace. All that availed nothing; the officer quitted the city, and joined his brother. And although there was a report that the Zemindars of Bodjp8r, bad men to a proverb, through whose lands he was to pass, had dressed an ambuscade, with intention to surprise and stripe him, he took that very road, and set them at defiance; but after having escorted his brother so far, he returned to the city, and took up his residence in his own house, like a private man. Heddiet-aaly-qhan having set out in the height of the rains, and pursued his journey through a miry country, arrived with much labour at Fdiz-abad, the residence of Ab8l-mans8r-qhan; and the next day he went to pay his respects to that Viceroy. The latter who knew how far he had contributed to that nobleman's disgrace, thought it incumbent upon him to show him a high regard, and to compliment him with a large pension; but the nobleman who had other views, and who intended that very day to continue his journey, tarried only two or three hours more;