Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 16.6.2

16.6.2

and it was at Moti-djil, that Biru-dutt, who had hitherto succeeded to the Prime Minister or Ray-rayan, but without assuming the title, now received the investiture of that high office in a rich Qhylaat, which constituted him Comptroller and Superintendent of the Revenue office. It was here likewise that the fall of Fahr-eddin-hossein-qhan was determined. His incapacity and cowardice had become now so apparent, that his very friends and troops used to quit him every day, and to take service with Sayd-ahmed-qhan at Puraniah; whilst himself with his immense baggage, and his riches, immense, was spending at Malda the whole rainy season, as if waiting what was to happen next. The Viceroy who now became fully apprised of his imbecility, sent some trusty persons to bring him over to Murshud-abad, where he assigned him suitable lodgings, and a suitable pension, with guards to watch over his person. So that at one and the same stroke he took possession of that immense heap of money and jewels that had been amassing for half a century together. We have said that on Haider-aaly-qhan's brigade being broke, the whole of that detachment had undergone the same fate; so that their Commander retired to Murshud-abad, where he had lost his eye-sight; and this misfortune had confined him to his house. But his broken troops applied to Seradj-ed-doulah, by whose intercession they were re-admitted into the service.