Note 131 — The Twelfth New Year’s Feast after my auspicious accession.
Alexander Rogers translation
On Tuesday, the 23rd, I marched over 3½ kos and alighted on the bank of the River Bāyab.131 On Wednesday I marched nearly 6 kos and halted at the tank of Hamda.132 On Thursday I ordered a halt and had a wine party, and gave cups to my special servants. I promoted Nawāzish K͟hān to the rank of 3,000 with 2,000 horse, which was an increase of 500 personal, and gave him a robe of honour and an elephant, and allowed him to go to his fief. Muḥammad Ḥusain Sabzak,133 who had been sent to Balkh to buy horses, came to Court to-day and paid his respects. Of the horses he brought, one was piebald and was of fine shape and colour. I had never seen a piebald horse of this colour before. He had also brought other good roadsters. I therefore gave him the title of Tijāratī K͟hān.