Book Title: Monk and Monarch
Author(s): Vidyavijay
Publisher: Deepchand Banthia

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________________ 109 of Mahammud Said. (This is a faithful rendering of the original. ) SEAL ( The letters in this seal cannot be deciphered. ) 1. This Mahammud Said was the son of Sujatkhan Shadibeg, but was adopted by Shaikh Farid. Shaikh Farid had also adopted one Mirkhan. Hence Mahammud Said and Mirkhan were brothers. Both of them lived with full pomp. They cared little even for the Emperor. They used boldly to pass by tne Emperor's palace, sitting at ease in a boat decorated with coloured lanterns and torches. Jehangir had often debarred them from doing so; but when they refused to put a stop to this practice, Mahabatkhan got Mirkhan killed at the hands of a certain person under instructions from Jehangir. Shaikh Farid thereupon requested the Emperor to kill Mahabatkhan. But Mahabatkhan secured certain respectable witnesses, who said that Mirkhan was killed not by Mahabatkhan but by Mahammud Said himself. Mahammud Said was thus accused of the murder of Mirkhan. He was alive during the twentieth year of the reign of Shah Jehan and was the head of 700 infantry and 300 cavalry. (Vide "Ain-i-Akbari", part I, pp. 416 and 481.) 15 Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com

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