Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.2.1

4.2.1

Fortune having put an end to Aazem-shah's reign and party, his ministers and generals joined Assed-khan, the Vezir, and Zulficar-khan, the generalissimo; and went in a body to pay their homage to Sultan Muazzem, now styled Bahadyr-shah, or the Valiant King. The Vezir and the generalissimo had got their own hands bound with a handkerchief; and it was in that condition they presented themselves, and made a profound bow: this sight affected the Emperor's sensibility; he was seen to move from his place, and with his own hands, to set the Vezir's hands at liberty: turning at the same time to his son, Muezzeddin, he bid him go, and loosen the generalissimo's hands. Not content with so much condescension, he made it a point to speak with the utmost kindness to both the father and son, especially to the former; and sending for one of his imperial suits of clothes, he ordered him to put it on directly, an honor, very seldom conferred on a subject, and which raised the old minister as high as the celestial mansions. When he saw him dressed, he did him the honor of an embrace, made him sit down in his presence, gave him the command and pay of 7,000 horses, with the grade attached to one of nine, added to all this a present of two corrors of Dams, and directed, that his Paleky should be admitted within the Imperial enclosure, as far as the gate of the Ghossel-qhana or Bathing-place, (an honor granted only to Imperial Princes);