Later Mughals v1.c9.s12.4

v1.c9.s12.4

The other version is that Farrukh-siyar had consulted Padshah Begam as to his conduct towards Asad Khan and Zulfiqar Khan. She wrote a reply counselling him not to deal severely with them, but to admit them to favour and maintain them in office. She made over the letter to Sadullah Khan, who was her *Mir-i-saman*, or steward. As he was strongly opposed to Zulfiqar Khan, owing to the quarrel about the appointment of a successor to Munim Khan, Bahadur Shah's Wazir, and also hoped that a rival's removal would increase his own chance of becoming Wazir he extracted the real letter and substituted one of an entirely contrary effect, or, as one version says, altered the words "should not kill" (*na bayad kusht*) into "should kill" (*bayad kusht*). Padshah Begam reproached Farrukh-siyar for having taken Zulfiqar Khan's life. The Emperor pulled her letter out of his pocket and the substitution of the forged letter was thus discovered. Sadullah Khan was immediately arrested. This second story certainly appears the more probable of the two.*