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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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Akbar give permission to all the Rajâs to return home. When they had got mid-way, Nawab Jain Khan said to the King :-"Your Majesty has dismissed all the Rijâs, though it is reported that the road to Kábul is not yet open."
The King asked: - * Where wert thou when the twenty-two Rájás were here present ?"
Jain Klan snid: - "May it please your Majesty, even now your orders are but awaited."
The King ordered him to recall all the Rajas, and they all returned. The King then pat down a folded betel-lenf, called lirá, and a naked sword, with the order that no one should come to pay his respects to him, until he had pledged himself, by taking ap the betel-lenf, to go to Kabul Eight days passed without anyone going to salute the King. Riji Bású Pathani, Governor of Núrpur, then cnme and bowing to the King took up the betel-leaf. The King was greatly plensod at this and said : -"Raja Dusu, thou art a very brave man."
Raja Basů took a large force and set forth to invade Kabul. When they renched Bhairuwal, a place on the Biør, that same backbiter Jain Khan, who was with him, plotted with some of his rascnls by night, saying:-We are ander the orders of this Raja. Let ns kill him and take his place.".
Raja Basů heard of this talk and said to himself : -" This is the villain who slandered me to the King. He must be punisl.ed somehow."
Thns they fell out, and while the Rajâ with his troops made for his homo nt Nurpur, Jain Khân set out for Dehli. On reaching Dehli the King asked him: "How did you people go and why did you come back, and where is Raja Basů P"
Jain Khin answered that he hnd had an altercntion with the Raja, who had gone off to his home. The King enquired about the affair from his officers and ascertained that it was due to Jain Khan's baseness. So Jain Khan was imprisoned, and again a folded betel-lenf was pat down in the same way, with the announcement that only he might come to salate the King who would attack Räji Basů. Eight daya elapsed without anyone coming forward to do so. Then the King remarked: - "Among eo many is no one willing to go ?"
Tash Beg 13 was present and the King addressed bim, saying: -"Mirza Tash Bêg, thon wilt, I hope, attack Raja Basů."
The Mirza arged that he was old, but Mirza Jamil Beg, his son, was also present. He was really the King's son by a slave girl who had been bestowed by the King on Mirza Tish Bêg. He made obeisance and said: "My Lord, my father is old, but if your Majesty be pleared to order me, I will cut off the Raja's hend and bring it hung on to the end of my bow, to your Majesty's feet."
The King was extremely plensed and said: - "I am highly pleased with thee. Ask anything of me."
13 TA Bor Khan Mughal (Taj Kban) advanced against RNA Band of Man withont waiting for the other opptingents to come up, and his son, Jamil Beg, hastily attacked Bed, but fell with fifty of his men at Pathan (kot) Blochmann's Ain, Vol. I, p. 457. It will be noticed that the legend is inclined to make Jam!) Beg Akbar's Ow son! The whole legend is based on confused recollection of events in Akbar's reign. Cariously enough Dlapuoct bas a somewhat similar tale about Akbar's siege of Chittaar, which he, however, connects with the well-known legend of Jaimal and Fatah: Storia do Mogor, I, p. 124.
