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would never have resisted him, if it had not been for the urgency of 
Rustam Dil Khan and Mukhlis Khan. The Dutch diary, which is 
coloured by a desire to favour Jahandar Shah, accuses both men of 
having entered the late emperor’s harem, where they plundered and 
violated some of the women.! 
Rustam Dil Khan bore out to the last his character for reckless 
bravery. When he was brought before Zu-l-fiqar Khan, the Wazir smiled 
and said to him; ‘In spite of all your cleverness, what dirt have you 
not ended in eating!’ Rustam Dil Khan laughed and retorted: ‘You 
and I ate the same dirt out of the same tray, it agreed with you and 
not with me.’ Zu-l-fiqar Khan had no answer to give, but hung down 
his head. As the executioner cut off one limb after another, Rustam 
Dil Khan continued to comment freely on Jahandar Shah, Zi-l-figar 
Khan and Kokaltash Khan, and even to the end he never flinched. 
As soon as breath had left the body, his mangled limbs and the headless 
trunk of Mukhligs Khan were hung to the wayside trees. The confis- 
cated property of Rustam Dil Khan, said to have amounted in value 
to twelve lakhs of Rupees, was granted to ‘Abdu-s-samad Khan. 2 
Note B. 
The following list of the prisoners sent to Dihli is given in Valentyn, 
TV, 294. (1) Hamidu-d-din Khan, Bahadur, (2) Mahabat Khan, Baha- 
dur, (3) Khan Zaman Khan, Bahadur, (4) Rahman Yar Khan, (5) 
Ihtimam (Utman) Khan, (6) Rahim-ullah Khan, (7) Jamal-ullah 
Khan, (8) Fath Maqsid Khan, (9) Fath Nusrat Khan, (10) Saif-ullah 
Khan, (11) Sarafraz (Serafraan) Khan, (12) Baryab Khan, (13) Aga 
Beg Khan, (14) Rae Késri Singh, (15) Rae Bhagwati, (16) ‘Soer’ (?) 
Khan, (17) ‘Ata-ullah Khan, (18) Rae Fath Cand, (19) Manohar Khan, 
(20) Asalat Khan, (21) Nasrat Khan, (22) Faqir-ullah Khan, (23) 
1 Warid, 83; Mhd. Qasim, Lahori, 62; Yahya Khan, 118 b (asto Jani Khan); Seir 
Mutagherin, 1, 33 ; Briggs, 42 ; Valentyn, IV, 294. Anon. Fragment B. M. Or. 3618, 
‘fol. 16a. To those executed Khushhal Cand, 388 a, adds the name of Sazawar Khan, 
daroghah of the Dagh and Tashihah. Rustam Dil Khan’s previous career has been 
referred to in the chapter on Bahadur Shah. Jani Khan was Khwajah Darvésh, son 
of Jani Khan, rank 5000; he was killed in the battle of Agrah, along with ‘Ali 
Murad, Kokaltash Khan, on the 18th Zu-l-hajj 1124 (10th January, 1713). Mukhlis 
Khan is described by Yahya Khan, 114 a, as Mut‘amad Khan, son of Qubad Khan, 
Khuld-makani. i.e., of ‘Alamgir’s reign, and he says he received the title of Mukhlis 
Khan after Jajau (1119 H. 1707). This seems a mistake, as the said Mut‘amad 
Khan, (Rustam Bég) died in 1117 H., 1705. Mukhlis Khan (cousin of Mirza Muham- 
mad, the historian) was really Mhd. Bég., son of Ahmad Bég, and nephew of Qabadah 
Beg, Diyanat Khan (d. Ramazan 1083 H., Dec. 1672,) seo Tarikh-i-muhammadi, 
year 1124 H. 
# Warid, 85, 86 ; Nuru-d-din, 71, 72. 
