That low wretch [Shaham] went on spending his days in that neighbourhood in arrogance, until one day he went to the town of Suharpur which was in the fief of Abdu-r-Rahman Beg, the son of Muyid Beg Duldai, who had been a favourite courtier of H. M. Jahanbani Jinnat Ashiyani [Humayun]. This camel-driver's son in the beginning of his infatuated career had held the relation of being the beloved of Abdu-r-Rahman, and according to the wicked ways of Transoxiana, which are neither consuming nor melting, neither love nor friendship, they took the path of shamelessness and immodesty, and played the game of affection with one another. On account of this relation Shaham came to his house, and fell to remembering Aram Jan, and asked that she might be returned to him.

    [[128]] (The story of Aram Jan is this.) She was a prostitute, and Ali Quli Khan, from love to her, which had its sources in lust, surrendered... to that street-walker, who was the embraced of thousands, and married her. He put her in the rank of his wives, and had the shamelessness to bring that slut to the drinking-bouts which he had with Shaham Beg, in order that she might recite and sing, and become the groundwork of strife. At last Shaham Beg by degrees fell in love with her, or rather came to lust after her, and as Ali Quli Khan was overcome by sensuality, he acted as Shaham's servant, and made his lands into three portions, keeping one for himself, and giving two to that clown's son, and waiting upon him.

One night that intoxicated wretch brought forward his wishes, and Ali Quli Khan was so wanting in self=respect as to make over to him his own wedded wife. Shaham Beg for a time enjoyed his lust, and then when his heart grew cold he in his folly made over that wanton whom he had adulterously carried off, to Abdu-r-Rahman Beg, in the same way that he had received her. Abdu-r-Rahman made her his wife, and kept her secluded. When Shaham Beg was his guest, he remembered in drunkenness and infatuation that Aram Jan, and showed restlessness (be-arami). Judging of Abdu-r-Rahman as of Ali Quli Khan, he expected that Aram Jan would be returned to him. Abdu-r-Rahman Beg had self-respect, and refused to do this. Shaham Beg, who was inflamed with wine, and was habituated to insolence and despotism, got angry. He at once forgot the claims of friendship. Such is the degree of stability of a connection founded upon lust!

    In fine, Shaham Beg proceeded to violence, and bound Abdu-r-Rahman Beg, and took the prostitute away from his house to a neighbouring garden, and there celebrated a singing and drinking party. Meanwhile Muyid Beg, the brother of Abdu-r-Rahman Beg, heard of this, and having armed himself, went to the door of the garden where that low wretch was. The men tried to stop him, and a fight took place. Suddenly, in the confusion, an arrow reached that miscreant, and the bird of his soul was released from the narrow cage of his body. Abdu-r-Rahman obtained deliverance from his bonds, and turning to flee, he with all haste betook himself to the world-protecting Court....

    [[129]]  When Ali Quli Khan heard of the occurrence, he rent the collar of patience and cast the dust of sorrow upon his head. He pursued Abdu-r-Rahman Beg and came as far as the Ganges. When it appeared that he had already crossed, he returned in despair, and conveyed the carcase of that camel-driver's son to Jaunpur, and buried it on the edge of a tank and erected a lofty building over it. Thus without the efforts of the loyalists, all this disturbance subsided.

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