The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.249

v4.c20.249

Even at this moment of peril the great nobles of the empire could not lay aside their personal quarrels and with scarcely an exception entered, either to assure their fortunes or to steal a march on their fellows, into treasonable correspondence with the invader. "Brother", said Nādir Shāh to Muhammad Shāh, when Muhammad Khān Bangash was presented to him, "you have three faithful servants, and the rest are traitors; those three are Nāsir Khān, Khān Daurān, and Muhammad Khān; from these I received no letters; from all the rest I received invitations to invade your country."