Note 21 — The Third New Year’s Feast from my Accession.

He left 1,500,000 rupees. He has one very stupid son, called Riʿāyat. On account of his father’s claims for services performed, I gave the superintendence of half the farrashkhana to him and the other half to Tuk͟hmāq K͟hān. Kamāl K͟hān was one of the slaves sincerely devoted to my service; he is of the caste of the Kalāls of Delhi. On account of the great honesty and trustworthiness that he had shown I made him bakāwal-begī (chief of the kitchen). Few such servants are ever met with. He had two sons, to both of whom I showed great kindness, but where are there others like him? On the 2nd of the said month Laʿl21 Kalāwant, who from his childhood had grown up in my father’s service, who had taught him every breathing and sound that appertains to the Hindi language, died in the 65th or 70th year of his age. One of his girls (concubines) ate opium on this event and killed herself. Few women among the Musulmans have ever shown such fidelity.