Later Mughals v1.c9.s22.10

v1.c9.s22.10

After that noble's departure for the Dakhin, Muhammad Murad used all his endeavours to strengthen his position with the Emperor. As he was in constant attendance, he succeeded at last in joining in the Emperor's conversation, and owing to his chattiness and readiness of speech soon found a way to his heart. He also obtained favour as a compatriot of the Emperor's mother, Sahiba Niswan, who was a Kashmiri, and the first open sign of his new position was that Farrukh-siyar said one day to the great nobles in darbar, "You have heard, have you not, Itiqad Khan is related by marriage to my exalted mother?" The Emperor's feeling against the Sayyids was an open secret, but the brothers being on their guard, he had been foiled hitherto in all his attempts against them. As opportunity offered, Muhammad Murad Khan hinted to Farrukh-siyar, in guarded and metaphorical language, that Samsam-ud-daulah Khan Dauran, up to that time his very soul and the confidant of all his secrets, was in collusion with the Sayyids, and thus it was that all his plots against them were divulged. The Emperor's mind was turned against Samsam-ud-daulah, and he determined to bring forward Muhammad Murad Khan. [K. K. 791, Yahya 123b.]