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THE DIDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(MARCH 1907
"With you I have no concern." The prince took his own turban and placed it on Jangbaz Khan's head and said a few words. Jangbaz Khan came out and rode off, followed by his troops. The rest of the divisions, one after the other, mounted and took the field.
When they had come out two koe from the camp, a fierce storm arose, a cloud of yellow dust robe & high into the air that neither sky nor earth was visible. An hour and a half afterwards heavy rain came on, which lasted one and a half to one and three-quarter hours. All this wind and rain blew in their faces. So violent was the torrent of rain that the small streams could only be crossed by swimming. Jangbaz Kbān halted where he was, in the expectation that when the wind lulled and the rain abated they would be able to move again, and begin the fight.
The wind and rain were so severe that all the tents in the army were blown over, the horses, pulling tap their tothering pegs, dispersed in all directions, and the men were involved in difficulties and discomfort. The disturbance continued for full three hours, and the wind remained as high as ever and the rain as heavy.
Seeing no help for it, Jangbaz Khan ordered a return march from that place at three-quarters 7, of an hour or one hour before sunset, and re-entered his camp. He remarked : "O friends ! it
"seems as if we were acting against God's good pleasure. I am convinced now that for further "space of time the stay in this region of the Marhattahs and others, our enem as, has been decreed."
After two days he sent a message to the princes through Nawab Sa'dullah Khan that Nawab Shuja-ud-daulah bad agreed to pay five lakhs of rupees to the Shāh's army as a tribute. As Jangbaz Khan bad heard that the Shāh bad started for his own kingdom, he bad accepted this proposal. Next morning a lakh of rupees arrived in cash; and a cessation of hostilities was arranged. Nawāb Ahmad Khân lost heart, and was displeased; taking with him the princes and *Imüd-ul-mulk he returned to Farrukhibid.
Two days previously the author had started with a note from princes Hidayat Bakhsh and Walā Jāh Bahädar, in consultation with Nawab Saif-ud-daullah, who to some extent had become estranged from Imād-ul-mulk; and Nawāb Ahmad Kbān had made several speeches to the Mir Sahib, through which his displeasure betrayed itself. Thus he, too, (the Mir Sahib) was a sharer in this consultation. He sent the author with the said not to see Nawab Shujās-ud-daulah.
This was the substance of the note. If a force were sent to a distance of two or three kos from us, we will leave this camp on the pretext of a hunting expedition, and come to join that force and then come on to you. You must also send twelve thousand rupees in cash.
When I (the author) got to Shaja-ad-daulah's camp, I obtained an interview through Aghā Mirza Muhammad Şādiq and Mir Gbalām Rasul (alias Mir Manjble), grandson of Nawab Sipähdär Khăn, deceased, whose grove is at Allahābād. Shaja-ad-daulah said: "To-morrow I shall bu "employed in getting together the lakh of rupees that I have agreed to pay. The day after that I will give you an answer and send you back with Mir Ghalam Rasul Khan." After this I went to visit Shekh şahib Shekh Allahyårs1 and Sayyid Nür-al-hasan Khan,31 both being then in the service of Nawāb Shajās-ad-daulah and commanders of cavalry regiments. With them I spent the day.
On that same date Nawāb Ghaganfar Jang Ahmad Khan and Imad-ul-mulk, taking the two princes, reorossed the Ganges and returned to Farrukhābād. The Mir Şahib (Sher Andās Khan)
This man Ww the son of Khan Jahan, Kokaltaah, 'Alamgirls foster brother. He was governor of Allahabad towards the end of Alamgir's reign, and died in 1180 H, (1718). The name of the grove has been now corrupted into " Bagh Sabahdir."
n Both Datives of Bilgrim. The former, H. M. Klot'. "Aourate Murtaz Husin," is the author of the valuable Hadiqat-ul-agalim, also written at the instigation of Captain Jonathan Soott. Nir-ul-bana Khan Anally moved his home to Patnah 'Agimabad and died there.
