Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c20.59

c20.59

On the 7th, as the huntsmen had marked down four tigers I went out to hunt them with my ladies. When the tigers came in sight Nur-Jahan Begum submitted that if I would order her she herself would kill the tigers with her gun. I said, ‘Let it be so.’ She shot two tigers with one shot each and knocked over the two others with four shots. In the twinkling of an eye she deprived of life the bodies of these four tigers. Until now such shooting was never seen, that from the top of an elephant and inside of a howdah (*amāri*) six shots should be made and not one miss, so that the four beasts found no opportunity to spring or move. As a reward for this good shooting I gave her a pair of bracelets (*pahunchi*) of diamonds worth 100,000 rupees and scattered 1,000 ashrafis (over her).