Tarikh-i Daʾudi 7.1

7.1

There were many of the chiefs of Sultan Sikandar whose history is worthy of being written, such as Asad Khan, the son of Mubarak Khan Yusuf-khail, who was endowed with the most exalted notions of generosity. Whenever the cloth was spread before him at meal-times he first filled large china plates with food, on which he placed great quantities of bread and pickles of every description, and on them a betel leaf, and on that a gold mohur, all of which he gave to beggars, and then began to eat himself. He addressed every one as a noble, even if he happened to be a servant of his own; if he chanced to be a stranger, he presented him with a lac of tankas. One day a person related to the Khan that Shaikh Muhammad Farmuli, the vakil, from the badness of the times, had been unable to marry his daughter. Asad Khan sent for him into his presence, and ordered a young slave to fill both his hands with gold pieces, and cast them into the Shaikh's skirt. The slave did as the Khan commanded, and then took him to the diwan, to see how much money he had received. After counting it, they found it amounted to 70,000 tankas. This was related to Asad Khan, and he commanded the same slave to give him as many more gold pieces as were required to make up the sum to 100,000 tankas.