Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.24.1

19.24.1

"The plain Ahmed I was, and the plain Ahmed am I still." After this short digression, which the historian's character seemed to require, and which the candid reader's benignity shall doubtless forgive, let us revert to my father. That nobleman, obliged to quit his residence of Hossein-abad, took his second son, Naki-aaly-qhan, with him, and repaired to the Imperial camp, where he was received with the utmost regard and distinction. The Emperor presented him with a qhyalaat of four pieces, composed of a turband that had been rolled on his Imperial head, and of a suit of clothes which he had put on. He became his Prime Minister of State, his Deputy in the signet office, and the centre of all business civil and military, as well as the person to whom all the Grandees paid their court. Cam-car-qhan himself thought proper to pay him his respects; and Misher Lass came to visit him. The Emperor had fixed his residence in the neighbourhood of Ticary, which is surrounded by the lands belonging to the two Radjas, Sunder-sing, and Bohor-sing; there he spent his time in anxious expectation of receiving from day to day some letter of the Abdali-king, with his injunctions to the Princes and Grandees of Hindostan, to recognise his authority and his title.