Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 32.15.6

32.15.6

After complimenting our readers with that digression on those eminent personages, we shall return now to the thread of our history. The Emperor and his Vezir being now satisfied as to Nizam-el-mulk's intentions, the dignity of Lord of Lords, with the office of first Paymaster, was bestowed on Saadat-qhan, son to another Saadat-qhan, who lived under Feroh-syur; and in the fourteenth of Redjeb of the same year, the Vezir Abul-mansur-qhan went to Court, where he was received with the utmost distinction, and complimented with a sabre and a poniard of jewel-work, with a variety of other jewels, and with a khylyat of seven pieces. He was at the same time installed with a rich belt in the Government of Acbar-abad-agrah. The command of the Ahedian Guards was at the same time bestowed on Ahmed-aaly-qhan, son to his sister; and as Issac-qhan's sister had of late been married to Shudjah-ed-dowlah, son to the Vezir, this alliance raised that popular nobleman's power to the utmost pitch; and he soon succeeded his father, the late Issac-qhan, in the Divanship of the Qhalissah. But a man who suddenly came to cut a great figure at Court, was Djavid-qhan. This eunuch, who had from a long time intimate connections with Oodem-bay, mother to the reigning Emperor, became so great a favourite with that Prince also, that he fancied himself a Minister of State, and indeed soon came to act as such, through the insinuations of that Princess, on the mind of the weak Prince, her son.