M. Hammer's Memoir on the Diplomatic Relations, S^r. 463 



^' and jewels, the property of Bahadar Sliah ; which may, in a great mea- 

 " sure, account for the subsequent magnificence of SuHman's court. Twenty 

 " years afterwards, letters were sent from India to Constantinople by the 

 " Turkish captain Saiyad Ali Katibi ; who, after being shipwrecked in the 

 " Persian Gulf, proceeded overland to Constantinople, and delivered the 

 " letters with which he was entrusted for Suliman by certain Indian 

 " princes." One of these letters is given in the journal of Suliman's cam- 

 paigns;* and Saiyad Ali Katibi's journey is already well known by the 

 notice given of it in the first volume of the Transactions of the Literary 

 Society of Bombay, and a translation lately published in the Journal Asia- 

 tiqiie of Paris, from the German of Diez. 



During the reigns of the succeeding Sultans until that of Murad IV., 

 there is no trace in tlie Ottoman histories of any intercourse whatever with 

 the Indian courts; till, in the year 1632, the Prince Baisanghar arrived at 

 Constantinople. In the annals of Naima, printed at Constantinople in the 

 year 1732, this event is fully related as follows : 



" Arrival of Prince Baisanghar. 



" At the end of the year A.H. 1042 (A.D. 1632), came the Indian prince, 

 " Baisanghar, to rub his forehead on the imperial gate: and at the beginning 

 " of 1043, he established himself at Scutari. The detail of his history is 

 " as follows ; After Timur's usurpation of the thrones of Iran, Turan, and 

 " Plindustan, his family continued to reign in those countries ; but, in 

 " process of time, Iran having been conquered by the Redheads (Kuzul- 

 " bashis), of the dynasty of the Suffis, and Turan by the Greenheads (Uzhegs), 

 " the family of Timurwas reduced to the occupation of the throne of Hin~ 

 " dustan alone. Muhammed Baber, the son of Omar Sheikh, resided, as kinsr 

 " of Hindustan, at Agra. He was succeeded by his son Humayun ; after 

 " whom, his son Jelaleddin Akbarshah ascended the throne, and ruled 

 " over Hind, Cabul, Candahar, Dehli, and the other provinces of Hindustan. 

 " His praises were sung by Sheikh Feizi, the Indian, and Newi Khamoshi. 

 " Akbar had three sons, Selim, Murad, and Daniel ; the former of whom 

 " succeeded him under the designation of Jehangi'r, (Conqueror of the 

 •' world). The princes, Murad, and Daniel (who is called by the Indians 

 ." Danshah), died after their flither ; and the whole empire of Hindustan 



* Vide Appendix, No. 1. 

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