Note 22 — The Sixteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

The account of S͟hāh Jahān’s spirited attack on the Deccanis is in some places rather obscurely worded, and the printed edition is not always correct. Help can be obtained from the Iqbāl-nāma, 181, etc., and from Elliot, VI. 379. The text has firār, “flight,” and this has been followed by Elliot, who has “on their approach the rebels took to flight, and removed to a distance from Burhanpur.” But the true reading, as shown by the Iqbāl-nāma, is qarār, “firmness,” not firār, and the words are bar daur-i-s͟hahr, “round the city,” not bar dūr, “far from.” The rebels were, as the Iqbāl-nāma states, “in the environs of the city,” “dar sawād-i-s͟hahr,” but apparently not in such force as to prevent S͟hāh Jahān’s sazāwuls—i.e., his apparitors and summoners—from going into the city and bringing out recruits. ↑