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2, ExXecurions AND IMPRISONMENTS. 
The troops of the deceased princes, on being refused further em- 
ployment, dispersed in all directions, some thousands of them marching 
eastwards to Bahar and Bengal under Mir Ishaq,! (son of Amir Khan 
deceased), Khwajah Muzaffar, Khwajah Fakhru-d-din, Khwajah Lut- 
fullah and others. But all of the defeated party were not so lucky as 
to be thought beneath notice. Mahabat Khan, son of Mun‘im Khan, 
the late Wazir, Hamidu-d-din Khan, ‘Alamgiri, Sarafraz Khan, Bahadur 
Shahi, Rahman Yar Khan, [htimam Khan, Aminu-d-din Khan, Sam- 
bhali, and some others, were sent to Dihli as prisoners and their pro- 
perty confiscated. * 
Some of the prisoners did not even escape with their lives. Rus- 
tam Dil Khan, Mukhlis. Khan, and Jani Khan, who had been prominent 
among the followers of Jahan Shah, were ordered out for execution. 
Jani Khan was spared on the intercession of prince A‘zzu-d-din. 
It seems that when that prince was a prisoner in the hands of the 
above-named men, as already related, word came to them that Jahan 
Shah was dead. Rustam Dil Khan exclaimed ‘What was fated to 
be has happened; and what is to be will without fail come to pass! 
Let us slay ‘Izzu-d-din and avenge the blood of Jahan Shah.’ Jani 
Khan objected that such an act would be useless, and it would be 
better for them to take steps for their own safety. Accordingly the 
prince was released, and he now repaid the kindness then done to him. 
On the other hand, Rustam Dil Khan’s offences were many. He had 
urged Jahan Shah to seize and kill Zi-l-fiqar Khan; he had used 
abusive language to Jahandar Shah in the battle field and made every 
effort to take his life; worst of all, when retreating from the field, he had 
overtaken Lal Kunwar, then fleeing for safety to Lahor, and had swept 
her and her retinue roughly out of his path. If Zabardast Khan 
had not come to her aid, there is no knowing to what indignities Lal 
Kunwar might not have been exposed, for Rustam Dil Khan was about 
to undo the tassel of pearls hanging from the sash (¢za@r-band) of her 
trousers, when she was rescued from his hands. 
What crime Mukhlis Khan had committed is not so clear. Some 
say that he was an object of dislike to Kokaltash Khan, and it is 
possible that Zu-l-fiqar Khan may have borne him a grudge for the 
advice given to Jahan Khan to seize that noble. The traitor Lut- 
fullah Khan Mughal, who deserted Rafi‘u-sh-shan in the battle field, 
is also supposed to have persuaded Jahandar Shah that his brothers 
1 Mir Ishaq is the man afterwards famous as Amir Khan, ‘Umdatu-l-mulk, assas- 
sinated the 23rd Zu-l-hajj 1159 H. (5th January, 1747), Ma’dsiru-l-wmara, II, 839. 
% See Note B, at the end of this section. 
