In the 21st year, Jahángír ordered Mahábat Khán to send M. 'A. to court, where he was reinstated in his titles and honours. He afterwards retired to his jágír at Láhor, when Mahábat Khán followed him and sent him back to Dihlí. Soon after the failure of his scheme of retaining possession of Jahángír's person, and the return of the monarch from Kábul, Mahábat Khán had to fly. Núr Jahán now appointed M.'A. to follow up Mahábat, and contributed herself twelve lacs of rupees to the expedition. But before the necessary preparations had been completed, M.'A. took ill at Láhor, and on his arrival in Dihlí, he died at the age of seventy-two, in the end of Jahángír's 21st year (1036). The words Khán Sipahsálár kú (where is the Khán Commander) are the táríkh of his death.

M. 'A.'s great deeds are the conquests of Gujrát and Sind and the defeat of Suhail Khán of Bíjápúr. During Jahángír's reign, he did nothing remarkable; nor was he treated with the respect which he had enjoyed during the lifetime of Akbar, though he was allowed to retain his rank. For nearly thirty years, he had been serving in the Dak'hin. Every grandee, and even the princes, accused him of secret friendship with the rulers of the Dak'hin, and Abulfazl, on one occasion, gave his fatwá that M.'A. was a rebel. Under Jahángír, he was the open friend of Malik 'Ambar; and Muhammad Ma'çúm, one of his servants, once informed the emperor that he would find Malik 'Ambar's correspondence in the possession of 'Abdurrahím of Lak'hnau (No. 197), who was much attached to M.'A. Mahábat Khán was appointed to enquire into this; but 'Abdurrahím of Lak'hnau would not betray his friend. People said, M. 'A.'s motto was, ‘people should hurt their enemies under the mask of friendship,’ and all seem to have been inclined to blame him for maliciousness and faithlessness. He used to get daily reports from his newswriters whom he had posted at various stations. He read their reports at night, and tore them up. But he was also proverbial for his liberality and love of letters. The Maásir i Rahímí* is a splendid testimony of his generosity; it shews that he was the Mæcenas of Akbar's age. People, by a happy comparison, called him Mír 'Alí Sher (vide p. 101, note 4.) M.'A. wrote Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Hindí with great fluency. As poet he wrote under the name of Rahím.

Though his father had been a Shí'ah, M.'A. was a Sunní; but people said, he was a Shí'ah, but practised taqiyyah.*

M.'A.'s most faithful servant was Miyán Fahím. People said, he was the son of a slave girl; but he appears to have been a Rájpút. He grew up with M.'A.'s sons, and was as pious as he was courageous. He fell with his son Fírúz Khán and 40 attendants in the fight with Mahábat Khán, who had imprisoned his master. M.'A. built him a tomb in Dihlí, which is now called Nílah Burj, near Humáyún's tomb. (A´sáruççanádíd.)

M. 'A. outlived his four sons.

1. Mírzá I´rich (or I´rij, Shahnawáz Khán Bahádur (No. 255). When young he used to be called Khán Khánán i jawán. He distinguished himself by his courage. In the 40th year of Akbar he was made a Commander of 400. In the 47th year, after a fight with Malik 'Ambar who got wounded, he received the title of Bahádur, During the reign of Jahángír he was called Shahnawáz Khán (vide Tuzuk, p. 95), and was made a Commander of Five Thousand. He died in 1028 from excessive drinking. (Vide Tuzuk, p. 270).

Two of his sons are mentioned in the Pádisháhnámah. 1. Mírzá Khán. He was Faujdár of Kángṛah, and retired ‘foolishly’ from public life in Rabí' II, 1046. But he was re-employed and was a Commander of Three Thousand in 1055 (Pádisháhnámah II, pp. 483, 723). 2. Lashkarshikan Khán. He got in 1047, a present of 4000 R., and received an appointment in Bengal.

Historians call Shahnawáz Khán generally Shahnawáz Khán i Jahángírí, to distinguish him from Shahnawáz Khán i Çafawí, a grandee of Sháhjahán.

2. Mírzá Dáráb Dáráb-Khán. He has been mentioned above (p. 337). When Sháhjahán made him Governor of Bengal, he retained his wife, a son and a daughter, and a son of Shahnawáz Khán as hostages (yarghamál). When the prince after the fight near the Tons (Benares) had again to go to the Dak'hin, he wrote to Dáráb Khán to move to Gaḍhí (N. W. entrance of Bengal) and join him. Dáráb wrote him that he could not come, being besieged by the zamíndárs of the place. He fell at last into the hands of Parwíz and Mahábat Khán, and as Jahángír had ‘no objections’, Mahábat executed him (1035), wrapped his head in a table cloth, and sent it to his father M.'A. as a present of a ‘melon.’ A short time before, 'Abdullah Khán had killed Dáráb's son and a son of Shahnawáz Khán.

3. Mírzá Rahmán Dád. His mother belonged to the Sandahas of Amarkoṭ. Though very dissolute, he was most liked by his father. He died, at Bálápúr, about the same time as his eldest brother. Vide Tuzuk, p. 315. No one dared to inform his father of the event, till people sent at last the famous saint Hazrat 'I´sá of Sindh to M. 'A. on a visit of condolence.

4. Mírzá Amrullah. He grew up without education, and died when young.

30. Ra´jah Ma´n Singh, son of Bhagwán Dás

He was born at Amber, and is the son of Rájah Bhagwán Dás (No. 27). Euro­pean Historians say that he was the adopted son of Rájah Bh. D., but Muhammadan Historians do not allude to this circumstance, perhaps because Hindús make absolutely no difference between a real and an adopted son. He is also known under the title of Mírzá Rájah, and Akbar bestowed upon him the title of Farzand (son).

He joined Akbar with Bihárí Mall (p. 329). In 984, he was appointed against Ráná Kíká, and gained, in 985, the great battle near Gogandah.* Rájah Rámsáh of Gwáliár was killed with his sons, whilst the Ráná himself in the melée was wounded by Mán Singh. Akbar, however, felt annoyed, because M. S. did not follow up his victory, and recalled him.

When Bhagwán Dás was appointed governor of the Panjáb, M. S. commanded the districts along the Indus. In the year 993, Prince M. Muhammad Hakím died, and M. S. was sent to Kábul to keep the country in order. He rejoined Akbar near the Indus with M. Muhammad Hakím's sons (M. Afrásyáb and M. Kaiqubád); but was soon after sent back to Kábul, where he chastised the Raushánís who, like other Afghán tribes, were given to predatory incursions. After the death of Rájah Bír Baṛ, in the war with the Yúsufzaís, M. S. was appointed to the command of the army in Kábul, in supercession of Zain Khán Kokah (No. 34) and Hakím Abul Fath. He was also put in charge of Zábulistán, as Bhagwán Dás had a fit of madness (p. 333). In the 32nd year, M. S. was recalled in consequence of loud complaints of the people against the Rájpúts and M. S.'s indifference to the Kábulís, and was appointed Governor of Bihár, to which province the tuyúls of the Kachhwáhas had been transferred.

After the death of Bhagwán Dás in 998, M. S., who hitherto had the title of Kuṉwar, received from Akbar the title of Rájah and a Command of Five Thousand. In Bihár he punished several refractory Zamindárs, as Púrán Mall and Rájah Sangrám. Rám, and received their tribute.