Later Mughals v2.c13.s6.22

v2.c13.s6.22

At this time the mother of Sayyid Saif-ud-din Ali Khan Barha, younger brother of the Wazir, had reached Burhanpur with her grand-children on her way from Aurangabad to rejoin her son at Muradabad, subah Dihli, where he was now faujdar. When Nizam-ul-mulk appeared and occupied the town, the men of her escort were overcome with terror, and proposed to send to the Nawab all the jewels and valuable property which they had in their charge, on condition that the family honour was saved and their lives guaranteed. Nizam-ul-mulk refused to accept the offer of the property, spoke kindly to Muhammad Ali, the Begam's agent, conferred on him a dress of honour, and sent him back with a present of fruit for the children. The Begam was then allowed to depart, an escort of two hundred horsemen going with her as far as the banks of the Narmada. [K. K. 873.]