Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 16.2.4

16.2.4

One of these was "the Prince of the teachers, the pattern of the jurisconsultes, the model of the virtuous and of the illustrious, the detector of the intricacies of questions, and the solver of the knots of difficulties, the Prince of learned ones, His Highness my Lord Mir-mahmed-aaly, (the refreshing stream of whose learning, may God Almighty keep running for a long series of years ! ) Another was the glorious and illustrious Qhan, the eye of mankind, and the ball of that eye, Zair-hussein-qhan, son to the learned Doctor, Moluvy-mohammed-nassyr, (upon whom may God's mercy repose for ever ! ). The third was the illustrious and beneficent Qhan, Taky-coly-qhan, now deceased, son to Hadji-abdollah, surnamed the Writer or Historian, who had been Divan of the province of Burhanpur, in the times of the Emperor Aoreng-zib-aalemghir (the Conqueror). The fourth was the illustrious and high-born Qhan, the beneficent, the munificent, the excellent and learned, the Lord of one way of seeing (that is, the sincere) Aaly-hibrahim-qhan, the valiant, son to Doctor Mahmed-nassyr, cousin-german to the late Zair-hussein-qhan. The fifth was Hadji-mahmed-qhan." All these eminent personages accompanied Aaly-verdy-qhan to Murshud-abad, where they were all welcomed with large pensions.