Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.17.3

42.17.3

The Monarch, to punish the General, sent him to an expedition on the other extremity of the Empire. It was to take the Fortress of Sansi, in the Djatt country, which service having been expeditiously performed, he soon returned to Court, where the Emperor, already disgusted with him, for the imperiousness of his temper, deprived him of all his offices, as well as of all his Djaghirs; and the poor man finding himself fallen at once in all the distresses of poverty and want, pined away and died of a broken heart. Let sincere and candid readers judge from this example, of what kind were the politics of that Prince, and let them conjecture what must have been his notions of gratitude, his principles of Government, and his particular turn of mind! His unworthy acknowledgment of the services rendered by his son, and his shocking treatment of two such meritorious heroes, as Qhan-djehan and Seyd-abdollah, whom he confined and vexed in a variety of manners, speak for themselves, and require no proofs or commentary. After the conquest of Bidja-pûr, and the circular letters sent throughout the Empire to announce that acquisition, the Emperor, under pretence of visiting the monument of Seyd-mohammedghissû-deraz, or the long-haired, sent his equipage forwards; he at the same time wrote to Saadet-qhan, the Sezavol, to take care to send to the presence the money promised by the King of Haider-abad.