Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghina 3.1.4

3.1.4

As it was decreed by fate, that Jalalu-d din should not reign, many of the grandees deserted him, and became his enemies. At this period Shahzada Jalal Khan, having set up a jewelled throne, and covered the doors and walls of his palace with brocade, sat there in state on the 15th of Zi-l hijja, 923 A.H. (Dec. 1517). He gave audience to the servants of the State, the courtiers and the soldiers, to all of whom he presented dresses of honour, swords, girdles, daggers, horses, elephants, titles, and honours, according to their respective ranks. Having thus gained the good opinion of the people, he opened the gates of charity to the poor and needy, and increased their allowances; and having thus established his authority, he ceased to obey Sultan Ibrahim, and caused the khutba to be read and coin to be struck in his own name. When he felt himself sufficiently powerful, he sent confidential agents to 'Azam Humayun, who was at that time besieging the fort of Kalinjar, and wrote to him, saying, "You are in the place of my father and uncle, and are well aware that the compact has not been broken by me. Sultan Ibrahim, of his own accord, gave me a portion of the inheritance which our father left, because I was his own brother, the son of the same mother. He has broken the phial of the connexion which we derived from our parent's womb with the stone of unkindness.