170 W. Irvine — Later Mughals (1707-1803). [No. 2, 
object to bathe at this place naked every Sunday for forty weeks.! We 
are also told of what he did once on a visit to the shrine of Qutbu-d-din. 
Near it is an eminence ending in a rock, with smooth, slippery face, 
sloping down to the plain; and here the street boys of Dibli amused 
themselves by climbing the rock and rolling over and over down the 
polished surface to the ground. Seeing them at this game, Jahandar 
Shah must needs dothe same! It should be remembered that he was 
at this time, not a youth, but a man over fifty years of age. # 
Nightly the low musicians gathered at the palace to drink in the 
emperor’s company. When these men became drunk they would kick 
and cuff Jahandar Shah and shout in a drunken way. Jahandar Shah, 
in spite of his long experience of the world, and all the training he had 
received from his grandfather and father, bore with these insults for 
fear of offending Lal Kunwar.® As for things forbidden by the Law, 
there was no longer any restraint; and the habits of the Court be- 
coming known, all respect for, or fear of, the sovereign ceased. When 
the emperor went abroad to hunt or for recreation, not a single noble 
attended, nor was he followed by any armed force. + 
Zu-l-figar Khan, the vazir, imitated his master’s example and 
devolved his duties on a favourite Hindt subordinate, Sabha Cand, a 
Khatri, lately made a Rajah, a man whose harshness and bad temper 
were notorious. Zi-l-fiqgar Khan’s former liberality was changed into 
niggardliness, he hindered men in their promotion instead of helping 
them, and the falsity of his promises and assurances became a bye- 
word. Partisans as well as opponents were dissatisfied with him. 
Tn short, as the Hastern saying ruus, ‘As the king, so the vazir,’ or 
as we English say, ‘ Like master, like man.’ ° 
To add to the other sources of weakness and disorder, a feud arose 
1 Shékh Nasiru-d-din Mahmud, Andhi, Ciragh-i-Dihh, (a Cishti), grandson of 
‘Abdu-l-latif, Yazdi. His father Yahya, a Hlusaini Sayyad, was born at Lahor. 
The Shékh wag born in Audh, and died 18th Ramazan 757 H. (14th Sept. 1356). 
though some say the 13th (9th Sept ) is correct. Another authority has 752 H. 
(1351-2). The shrine lies about 7 miles south of new Dihli (Shahjahanabad), 
Khazinatu-l-asfyzah, 1, 353. 
2 Khishhal Cand, 390 a; Iradat Khanin J. Scott, II, part IV, 82, 83. Also 
as to the bathing see Kamwar Khan, 120, and Kam Raj ‘Ibratnamah, 46 b. Muham- 
mad Qasim, Aurangabadi, in Ahwdl-ul-khawaqin, fol. 46 b, has another version of 
the Qutb story, where a rocking stone near the shrine is rocked. 
3 This story is also in the Dutch diary, where it is assigned to the 17th July 
1712, Valentyn, IV, 298. 
4 Kamwar Khan, 120. 
5 Wazir cunin, Shahryar cunén, Ma/asiru-l-Umara, IJ, 938; Iradat Khan 
(J. Scott, II, part IV, 83). 
