Volume 2

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr ... / translated by Alexander Rogers .. ; edited by Henry Beveridge.

  • Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, 1569-1627.
Date:
1909-1914
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    honour of kissing the carpet, and produced as offering twelve horses, nine tuqiiz^ of silk cloths, and two rings. As he had come with devotion and sincerity, I conferred favours and kindness on him, and presented him with 20,000 darbs (Ks. 10,000) for his expenses and a dress of honour. On the same day I gave the post of Bakhshi of the Ahadis to ‘Inayat K. in place of Qasim K. I honoured Khwaja ‘Aqil, who is one of the old servants, with the title of ‘Aqil K., and pre- sented him with a horse. On Friday, Dilawar K., coming from the Deccan, had the good fortune to kiss the threshold, and presented an offering of 100 muTiars and Rs. 1,000. Baqir K., Faujdar of Multan, was promoted to a mansab of 800 personal and 300 horse. Tijarat K. and Bahn’i,*)* Zamindar of Multan, were honoured with the gift of elephants. On Saturday, the 11th, marching from Dohad with the intention of hunting elephants, I pitched at the village of Kara Bara (Garbara?). On Sunday, the 12th, the village of Sajara (Sajwara?) became the place of alighting. It is 8 hoss from this place to Dohad, and IJ hoss to the hunting- ground. On the morning of Monday, the 13th, I went to hunt elephants with a body of my private servants. As the grazing-place of the elephants is in a hilly country, with elevations and depressions, a passage is obtained with diffi- culty by one on foot. Before this, a large body of horse and foot had surrounded the jungle after the manner of a qamurgha, and outside the jungle, on a tree, they had pre- pared a wooden platform for me. On all sides of this they had arranged seats on other trees for the Amirs. They had got ready 200 male elephants with strong nooses, and many female elephants. On each elephant there were seated two elephant-drivers of the tribe of Jarga,% whose special em- * Tuquz means “ nine,” but perhaps it is here only used to express a gift, and the pieces of cloth were perhaps only nine, and not eighty- one. See Vullers s.v., who refers to Quatremere. t The I.O. MSS. have Mamu’i, and the meaning may be “the maternal uncle of the Zamindar.” f Jariya in No. 181. It seems to be the Jareja tribe of Abu-1-Fazl, Jarrett II. 250. Compare Blochmann’s translation, p. 285 n., of the corresponding passage in the Iqbal-nama. The tribe is there called Jhariyah.