تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.8.2

10.8.2

When two months had passed since our arrival in Multān, one of the Sultan's chamberlains, Shams al-Dīn al-Būshanjī, arrived together with Malik Muḥammad al-Harawī the kotwal. The Sultan had sent them to receive Khudhāwandzāda, and with them came three eunuchs sent by al-Makhdūma Jahān, the Sultan's mother, to receive the wife of the said Khudhāwandzāda. They brought robes of honour for the two of them and their children, and provisions to equip the delegations that had arrived. They all came to me and asked me, "Why have you come?" I told them that I had come to stay in the service of Khwand ʿĀlam — that is the Sultan, and this is what he is called in his country.