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Secrion 15.—MunamMap Sx#in’s Movements. 
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On the day following Husain ‘Ali Khan’s death a formal 
audience was held by Muhammad Shah. In the interval 
Muhammad Amin Khan had posted ene of Mughals to arrest 
ae and instructions were given to the armed villagers to 
stop any one ‘who tried to leave the camp. In this way many 
men, thougl partisans of the Sayyids and anxious to escape, were 
forced to remain. Muhammad Amin an went among them 
in person to try and secure their adhesion. In spite ‘of his 
Mahomedan bigotry, he visited the quarters of Rajah Muhkam 
Singh, one of the Sayyids’ principal officers. As the Rajah saw he 
was in the Mughal’s power, he made his submission and at his first 
ore was presented by Dy& Ram, we hgh of Muhammad 
Khin. He was promoted to the k of 6,000 with the 
vight to beat kettledrums. Mir Mushrif “of Lakhnau, another of 
the Sayyids’ chief men, after rejecting the first overtures made 
to him, was also propitiated and promoted. ‘Inadyatullah Kkan, 
Kashmiri, the khansaman, Rajah Gopal Singh, Bivlaatick, 3 ind 
oe other nobles laid their offerings at the ankeloet 
feet, 
“Ma hammad Amin Khan was promoted to 8,000 24¢ and was 
loaded with gifts. Khan Danran, althongh at the critical 
moment his fear of the Sayyids had prevented his declaring him- 
self, received the same exalted rank. The grade of seven 
thousand had been hitherto the limit for any person not of the 
blood royal. Qamar-nd-din Khan, Haidar Qnli Khan and 
Sa‘adat Kban were made respectively 7,000, 6,000, and 5,000 in 
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received promotion, To celebrate the emperor's + emancipation 
from the Sayyid bondage, some poet found a chro m: 
“ He was a bright star (Roshan aha and is now a 
moon ; 
‘* Like Joseph he left prison to become a 8 vt 
The camp was about seventy two miles from h, about 
one hundred and twenty-eight miles from Dihli, wid the nearest 
point on the Jamnah, to the north-east, was di-tant nbont sixty- 
eight miles. Under the altered circumstances any further 
vance i khin was useless. There was 
some doubt and debate as to whether aid should return to Baier 
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1 Roshan-Akhtar bid, ikniin méh 
“ Visuf az zindén bar-amud shah ona’ » (1133). 
a. 305, Shia Das. 49@ The Térikh-i-muzaffari says there is an 
excesx of two yexrs in the figures, though the ehronogram was accepted 
f: ts nnproprintoness but I make it come ont right, if applied to thig 
perid (1133 . and not to the date of arression (1131). as pm dnipemesates done, 
Khishhal Sead Rerlin MS. 495, £. 9975, says the anthor was a poet known 
as as Iga (the inspired). Kamwar Khan, 232, Mhd  anligh Lahori, 366, Shia 
Das, 40%, Khafi Khan, II, 910. 
