Note 1 — The Nineteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

Qāẓī ʿAbdu-l-ʿAzīz, who had come to Delhi from Bī-daulat in order to state his objects, had not been allowed by me an opportunity to speak and I had handed him over to Mahābat K. After his (Bī-daulat’s) defeat and ruin Mahābat K. had made him his own servant. As he was an old friend of ʿĀdil K., and was for some years at Bījāpūr as Vakil of K͟hān Jahān. Mahābat K. now sent him again as his representative1 to ʿĀdil K͟hān, and the leading men of the Deccan, nolentes volentes, looking to the necessities of the time and the upshot of affairs, were contented and professed loyalty and desire for service. The rebel ʿAmbar sent one of his confidential men of the name of ʿAlī S͟hīr, and displayed great humility. He (ʿAmbar) wrote in the capacity of a servant to Mahābat K., and engaged that he (ʿAmbar) should come to Dewalgāon2 and wait upon Mahābat. He would make his eldest son a servant of the State, and keep him in the service of my auspicious son. About this time there arrived a letter from Qāẓī ʿAbdu-l-ʿAzīz that ʿĀdil K. from the bottom of his heart had elected for service and loyalty, and agreed that he would send Mullā Muḥammad Lārī, who was his principal agent and minister, and whom both in spoken and written messages he called Mullā Bābā, with 5,000 horse, that he might remain continually on duty, and they might know that other3 troops would follow (?). Urgent farmans had been sent that my son should proceed to Allahabad and Behar in order to overthrow Bī-daulat. At this time news arrived that notwithstanding the rainy season and the violence of the rain, that son, on the 6th Farwardīn had marched out of Burhanpur with the army of fortune, and had taken up his quarters in Lāl Bāg͟h,4 and that Mahābat K. was awaiting at Burhanpur the arrival of Mullā Muḥammad Lārī, so that when he arrived he would relieve himself of the care of the maintenance of order in that neighbourhood, and come with him (Muḥammad Lārī) to wait on my son. Las͟hkar K., Jādo Rāy, Ūday Rām, and other servants of the State had been ordered to go to the Bālāg͟hāt (the country above the Ghats), and remain at Z̤afarnagar. Having given Jān-sipār K. leave as before, he (Parwīz) kept Asad K. Maʿmūrī at Elichpur. Minūchihr, s. S͟hāh-nawāz K., was appointed to Jālnāpūr. He sent Riẓawī K. to Thālner, to guard the province of Khandesh.