Note 27 — The Sixteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

On the 29th, Qāsim Beg, an envoy of the ruler of Persia, came and waited on me, bringing a letter from that brother of lofty dignity, containing expressions of sincerity and friendship. What he had sent by way of royal gifts was laid before me. On the 1st of Tīr, I sent a special elephant called Gaj Ratan, for my son (farzand) K͟hān Jahān. Naz̤ar Beg, a servant of K͟hurram, laid before me a letter from him asking for the gift of horses. I ordered Rāja Kis͟han Dās, the mus͟hrif (accountant) to prepare within fifteen days 1,000 horses from the royal stables, and to send them off with him. I sent to K͟hurram as a present a horse of the name of Rūm-ratan27 (“the jewel of Turkey”), which the ruler of Persia had sent me out of the spoils of the Turkish camp.