But to return to the history of the Emperor. On the sixth of Muharram* of the year one thousand and one, he arrived in Kashmír, and having spent a whole month minus two days in enjoying himself in that “his private garden,” and having com­mitted the government of that province to Mirzá Yúsuf Khán, on the sixth of the month of Çafar* of the year one thousand and one he embarked in a boat on his way back, and reached Bárah Múlah on the confines of Kashmír (P. 385) and at the end of the road to Pakhalí.

On the road he came to a lake, which is known as Zain-lanká,* and enjoyed himself there. This lake, which is between two mountains, one on the east and one on the west, has a circumference of thirty cosses, and is very deep. The river Bahat* flows through it. Sulṭán Zain-ul-'ábidin, whose history has been written succinctly in my abridgment of the history of Kashmír, had a jaríb of stones thrown into the water and built thereon a stone throne, so lofty and grand that the like of it has not been seen in all the provinces of India.

Among the wonders which the soldiers saw in the country of Kashmír is a sensitive tree in the village of Khánpúr, the width of its stem is two arash* and its height more than a gaz, and its branches are like an inverted Béd-i-Majnún,* and for all that if a child do but take hold of one of its branches and shake it, the whole tree trembles and shakes. And some of the wonders of that country have been described by the late Sháh Fatḥ-Alláh Shírází, and his account has been inserted in the Akbarnámah by 'Allámí Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl.

During the first part of the month Rabí'-ul-awwal* of this year His Imperial Highness took up his abode at Rohtás. On the fifteenth of this month he returned to that abode of delights Pe-sháwar, and on the sixth of the month Rabí'-us-sání* he took up his abode in that city which is the city of all arts. At that time news came, that Bahádur Kodrah, a little account of whom has already been given, after the death of Qutlu Loḥání* governor of, had fought a great battle with Sakat Singh the son of Mán Singh, and defeated him. When Mán Singh marched against him, he was not able to withstand him, but fled and hid himself in the deserts and mountain, and the kingdom of Bengál to the sea-shore was brought entirely into the power of Mán Singh.

On Sunday the seventeenth of Jamáda's-sání* of (P. 386) the year one thousand and one (1001) the passage of the Sun from Pisces into Aries took place, which was the beginning of the thirty-eighth year from the Accession. More new regulations were published.

On the twenty-fourth of Jamada's-sání the Khán Khánán and Mirzá Jání came to Court, and became the recipients of the Em­peror's bounty. He distinguished the Amírs, who had been with the Khán Khánán on service, each according to circumstances with additions to their mançabs and jágírs. At first, Multán was fixed as the jágír of Mirzá Jání, after some time he was transferred to Thathah, and Multán was given to Mirzá Rastam, as shall be hereafter narrated, if God, He is exalted! will.

At this time came news that, when the Khán-i-A'zam took pos­session of Súrat Muzaffar Guzrátí, who was in that neighbourhood, fled to Kangár the zamíndár of the province of Kach'h and took refuge with him. Then A'zam Khán went against Kangar. And he with a view to preserving his name and reputation came and had an interview with Khán-i-A'zam. The son of Khán-i-A'zam took Muzaffar Khán* prisoner unawares, in the place where he was, and sent him to the Khán-i-A'zam. And Muzaffar on the journey on the plea of a call of nature sat down with his canopy over him, which he always carried about with him together with his other property, and cut his throat and died. And, not being able to do anything else, they sent his head to the Khán-i-A'zam, and he sent it on to Court:—

“Heaven turns away its face
From every one who turns from it;
You should not turn your face from it,
That it turn not its face from you.”*

At this time Rájah Mán Singh sent from Bengál the 120 elephants, which had fallen into his hands at the conquest of Oṛísah.

In this year in accordance with the decree that all the Amírs of the frontier at the end of a certain fixed period should come to Court, which was a very wise and politic provision, a farmán was issued to A'zam Khán, who (P. 387) for a period of six years had absented himself, ordering him to repair to Court. The Emperor took away from him Júnágaṛh,* which he had conquered, and gave it to Rájah Mán Singh. On the last occasion, when he came from Bengál to Fatḥpúr, he had let fall some harsh words concerning the sect and creed, and in his bigotry had brought the names of Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl and Bírbar before the Emperor, and carried his speech to wonderful excesses, so that he became the common talk of high and low. Eventually on account of their affair he was looked very much askance at, and so [he left Court] on the pretext of letting his beard grow, which he had vowed in his war with the Jám, and concerning which the Emperor had written to him, saying: “Is your beard not yet grown, that you do not come?” and he had written a long and rude letter in reply, which made an impression on the Emperor's mind. Some of the hypocrites about Court told tales of him, and got him removed from his post. On this account he put his children and his wives and treasures into a boat on the first of Rajab* of the aforesaid year he left Júnágaṛh and went to the port of Díú intending to make a pilgrimage to Makkah, and the following mnemosynon for the date, which is one too many, was com­posed:—

“To the place of the upright Khán-i-A'zam went,
But in his despite of the king he went wrong,
When I asked of my head the date of the year,
It said: Mirzá Kókah is gone on a pilgrimage.*

And this affair of his,* which they compared with that of the chief of anchorites Ibn Adham,* after all was all the same to him whether he accomplished the journey or not. On the arrival of the news a farmán was sent to the Prince Sulṭán Murád that he should become governor of Guzrát, and the Emperor having appointed Mu-ḥammad Çádiq Khán, in the place of Isma'íl Qulí Khán as his wakíl, allowed him to leave the Court. And the province of Súrat and Baroṇch, on account of the removal of Qulíj Khán, was fixed as his jágír. In this year Zaim Khán Kókah and Áçaf Khán who had been appointed to punish the Afgháns of Swát and Bajúr, and to extirpate Jallálah the Roshanáí (P. 388), killed many of them, and cap­tured the wives and family of Jallálah, and his brother Waḥdat 'Alí with their relatives and brethren to the number of nearly 14,000, and sent them to Court. And of the rest of the prisoners who can take account!

On the twenty-ninth of Zi-l-qa'dah* of this year the government of the district of Málwah was given to Mirzá Sháh Rukh. And Shah-báz Khán Kambú, who had been kept in confinement for three years, and had paid a fine of seven lacs of rupees, the Emperor sent for from Kángaṛh and set him free. He was then appointed to manage the affairs of Málwah, and to be wakíl to Mirzá Sháh Rukh.

On the seventeenth of Zí-qa'dah of this year the learned Shaikh Mubárak* departed from this world. At his funeral his sons shaved their heads and beards and mustaches and eyebrows as people do the beard. And Faizí, the king of poets, found the date: Pride of* per­fection ; and I found the date: The perfect Shaikh.* And A new law* gives the date on which these people had their hair, beard, mus­taches, and eyebrows shaved.