Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.7.3

17.7.3

Zin-eddin-ahmed-qhan, the third of those illustrious personages, and a Prince who in personal prowess and capacity was so far superior to both his elder and younger brother, that he wanted to have the precedence over them both, preceded them in fact, and early departing this life, he took shelter in the mansions of divine mercy: a death that thunderstruck Aaly-verdy-qhan, his uncle, and made him say with a deep-fetched sob, that if dominion and sovereignty had been decreed to last in his family, Haibet-djung (for such was that hero's title) would have not died. His death was followed by that of Nevazish-mahmed-qhan, who took the road of eternity, and treaded close on the steps of his younger brother. It is after all these losses, that the author of these recording sheets, becoming known to Aaly-verdy-qhan, and being often of his company, heard him sob, and lament himself, and say that Shahamet-djung's death (meaning Nevazish-mahmed-qhan) affected him, not like that of a son, but like that of a fond indulgent parent, of some one that seemed to have nursed up the whole family. After this death, the old Viceroy was looking up to Sayd-ahmed-qhan as his last resource; and I remember that the last letter he wrote to him was in these moving terms: Now I am entirely broke both by age and by sorrow. If I live a little more, I shall in the next winter (which was about six months after) repair on purpose to Radj-mahal;