Vol. XI, Nos. 7 & 8.] Monserrate’s Mongolicae Legationis. 201 
[V.8.] 
[In a later note (Nov. 12th, 1914) Mr. H. Beveridge returns to Shah Man- 
sir’s alleged treachery and execution. He quotes first Abul Fazl’s 
long account and comments very pointedly on it and on Monserrate’s 
version of the story at p. 576.] 
THE DEATH OF KuwAsa SHdu Manstr tHe Diwan, 
(AKkBaRNAMA, III, p. 342). 
“Sikandar Zul Qarnin [Alexander the Great] ased always 
to say to his. courtiers :— 
“The companions and jesters are one class. Their busi- 
ness is nothing but to amuse and tell humorous stories, though 
they may not be true. Their aim is to be brilliant and to feed 
the lamp of joy with oil. By pleasing quips addressed to the 
entourage they add to cheerfulness and by every device adorn 
the bride of joy. The pillars of empire and the grandees of the 
court are like hands and arms and are of a different order. 
Their duty is to administer medicine for the troubles of the 
world, to give opiates to the broken-hearted, and to apply 
plasters to the old sores of the Age. They say what may calm 
the confusions of the time, and may unravel perplexities, and 
may soothe the world, and produce the happiness which is the 
ally of security. And if there be no one to purchase from 
them these things, they maintain silence and meditate good 
thoughts. Disaster to the State generally results from these 
two classes of men abandoning their proper work. Moreover, 
Sexanider often said to his officers: ‘‘ Whoever in order to 
f The case of the Khwaja was at this time a fresh instance 
: this. He was always, out of ostentation and rapaciousness, 
making meticulous inquisitions into the financial matters of his 
f 
we the same order in his Account of Akbar, J.A.S.B., Vol. °, No. 5, 
i“ 190, where see my note 1, oe 
has P. 673, n. 4, 2nd sentence, Monserrate says that a Timiirnima 
i : u bg 
r a 
and that Miran Sh&h and Khan Mirza are left out. 
chat ar Shaikh : 
Sali Wed his information from the instructors of Akbar’s sons, Princes 
mand Murad. How j 1—H. H. 
: before him. Ke a 
“position with ‘Umar Shaikh. There was a Khan Mirz&® who 
and cay. of Sultan Mahmiid of Samarkand, and he was Babur’s cousin 
of Babus after him, but not immediately after. He was a contemporary 
mand grandson of Shah Begam of Badakhshan.” 
