Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.6.2

19.6.2

This nephew of Shah-ismail's, tired with the troubles of his native country, had retired towards Hindostan, on the frontiers of which the fugitive Prince was then in possession of the Fortress of Candahar; which with its province formed a noble estate, which the Emperor Acbar took out of his hands, under promise of giving him in return the country of Sind and some other districts, but which he never gave him; so that the fugitive Prince who had settled himself in that province, where he coined money, died of vexation and grief, on finding himself over-reached by the Hindostany Emperor. The younger brother of that fugitive, having no resource left in the world, came to Shah-djehan-abad, where he submitted to take service with the Emperors of the race of Temur, and where he married the daughter of Abdol-rahim-qhan, a Minister of State, who cut a capital figure under the title of Prince of Princes; and it is from that younger brother, that have sprung the several races of Sefevian Princes, now settled in Hindostan; to wit, that of Shah-Nevaz-qhan, of Nöuröz-qhan, and of Mirza-gholam-aaly, father to our Mirza-abdollah, of whom we have been speaking, and who was connected with the English; and it was Mr. Wats, a man in high credit with the rulers of Azim-abad and Bengal, that recommended him to Ram-narain; the latter overawed by such a recommendation, gave him a noble salary, and a company of a hundred horse; and moreover he made use of him to transact business with the English;