Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c6.s4.8

v1.c6.s4.8

Though his education in the arts and sciences had been elementary, he had a very agreeable well-balanced nature and could compose impromptu verses in Persian, which were pleasant to hear though not marked by scholarship. Benevolent and discreet, he never shut his doors on the crowds of suitors who daily thronged the audience chambers of the great, but had a kind word for every one. Well-born persons, however poor and low of rank, were treated by him like friends and brothers. His perfect courtesy and consideration for others made all men like him. Though Amir Khan in the end turned hostile to him out of envy and got his troops (*Shamshir-dāgh*) disbanded by influencing the Emperor, Asad Yār continued grateful for the Khān’s early favours, and sold his own jewels and household goods to discharge the dues of Amir Khan’s unpaid and mutinous troops and thus saved his former patron from insult and outrage. [*Chahār Gulzār*, 383; *Siyar*, iii. 11.]