| [[152]] As the vigilance and caution
of the Shahinshah were unwavering, he was not contented with giving such
excellent admonitions as have been already described, but on the first
stage out from that place [=Delhi] he sent Mir Abdu-l-Latif of Qazwin [[153]]
who was distinguished for knowledge and fidelity, that he might guide Bairam
Khan by righteous exhortations. The gist of his words was as follows: "Your
services and your fidelity to this great family are known to mankind. As
owing to our tender age, we gave our attention to promenading and hunting,
we did not cast our glance on political and financial affairs, and all
the business of sovereignty was entrusted by us to your excellent capacity
and knowledge. Now that we have applied our own mind to the affairs of
government, and the administration of justice, it is right that this sage
well-wisher (Bairam), who ever boasted of his sincerity and devotion, should
recognise a Divine gift in this truth, and offer up endless thanks for
it. He should for a time gather up his skirts from business and turn his
attention to the bliss of pilgrimage of which he was always desirous, and
with regard to which he was constantly, in public and in private, expressing
his great longing to obtain such a boon. We shall grant him whatever place
and whatever extent of land he may wish for in India, so that his servants
may remit him the proceeds, harvest by harvest and year by year." On 13
Ardibihisht, Divine month of the above-mentioned year (22nd April), corresponding
to Tuesday 26 Rajab, the standards of glory were planted at the town of
Jhajhar.
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