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70 JAHANGIR ENTERS LAHORE.<br />

(bullocks and asses) will be used. When he came to this<br />

Court in company with Mirza Shahrukh he had one horse.<br />

By degrees his affairs flourished so that he became possessed<br />

of treasure both visible and buried, and projects of this<br />

kind entered his mind.<br />

While Khusrau's affair was still in the will of God, as<br />

there was no actual governor between Afghanistan and<br />

Agra, which is a source of sedition and mischief, and,<br />

fearing that Khusrau's affair might be prolonged, I ordered<br />

son Parwiz to leave some of the sardars to look after<br />

my<br />

the Rana and to come to Agra with Asaf Khan and a body<br />

of those nearly connected with him in the service. He<br />

was to consider the protection and management of that<br />

region his special charge. But by the blessed favour of<br />

Allah, Khusrau's affair was settled before Parwiz arrived in<br />

Agra I accordingly ordered my aforesaid son to come and<br />

;<br />

wait on me.<br />

On Wednesday, Muharram 8th, I auspiciously entered<br />

the fort of Lahore. A number of loyalists represented to<br />

me that my return to Agra would be for the good of the<br />

State at this time when much was going amiss in Gujarat,<br />

in the Deccan, and in Bengal. This counsel did not meet<br />

with my approval, for the reports of Shah Beg Khan, the<br />

governor of Qandahar, showed that the officers of the<br />

Persian border were meditating an attack on that fortress.<br />

They had been moved thereto by the machinations of the<br />

residuum of the Mirzas of Qandahar's army, which was<br />

always shaking the chain of contention. The Persian<br />

officers had written letters to these malcontents, and there<br />

was likelihood of a disturbance. It occurred to me that<br />

the death of His Majesty Akbar and the unreasonable<br />

outbreak of Khusrau might put an edge on their design,<br />

and that they might attack Qandahar. What had occurred<br />

to my mind became a realized fact. The governor of<br />

Farah, the Malik of Sistan, and the jagirdars of that<br />

neighbourhood, with the assistance of Husain Khan, the

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