180 W. Irvine— Later Mughals (1707-1803). [No. 2, 
impressed on him the danger of keeping such a large amount of treasure 
in camp outside a turbulent city; it ought to be removed to a place of 
safety within the fort, and when the succession was settled, it could be 
made over to the prince who gained the day. Shuja‘u-d-din Khan yielded 
to this specious advice, and “Abdu-llah Khan, as soon as he was master 
of the coin, used it to pay the arrears of his soldiers. ! 
While ‘Abdu-llah Khan was still in expectation of a favourable 
reply to his letter to Jahandar Shah, he was surprized to learn that his 
government had been taken from him, and that the deputy of the new 
governor was on his way to take possession. The province had been 
granted to a Gardézi Sayyad of Manikpur, swbah Allahabad, one Raji 
Muhammad Khan,? who had risen to notice in the recent fighting at 
Lahor, and through the reputation thereby acquired had been appointed 
Mir Atash, or general of artillery. The new*governor nominated as 
his deputy his relation, one Sayyad ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar (a descendant of 
Sayyad Sadr Jahan, Sadru-s-sadur, Pihanwi).° 
‘Abdu-l-ghaffar obtained contingents from one or two zamindars 
and collected altogether 6,000 to 7,000 men, When he drew near to 
Karrah Manikpur, Abu-l-hasan Khan, a Sayyad of Bijapur, who was 
‘Abdu-llah Khan’s bakhshi, advanced at the head of 3,000 men to 
bar his progress. In the end of Jamadi II 1124 H, (29th=2nd August, 
1712) they met at a little distance from Sarde Alam Cand,* and encamp- 
ing four or five miles from each other, they passed some days in fruitless 
negociations. Then ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar prepared his men and sent forward 
his artillery. It so happened that the very same day Saifu-d-din ‘Ali 
Khan, Siraju-d-din ‘Ali Khan, and Najmu-d-din ‘Ali Khan, younger 
brothers of ‘Abdu-llah Khan, and Ratn Cand, his diwan or chief finan- 
cial agent, arrived with a reinforcement of four hundred horsemen. 
Although some of the Sayyads rode out to the front, ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar 
1 Warid, 188 0, Khafi Khan, {I, 711. 
2 Gardéz2, see Elliot, Supp. Gloss., 447 ; Gardéz is situated in the Bangashat, not 
far from Kohat, A‘in, II, 407 note 2. Raji Mhd. Khan first entered the servic2 through 
Mun‘im Khan, Khan Khanan. Kam Raj, [bratnamah, calls him Husamu-d-din, who 
had been made Sayyad Raji Khan, Bahadur, Dilawar Jang. ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar is there 
called his brother. s 
3 Blochmann, A’ I, 208, 468. Pihani, a village near Qaunanj or Lakhnan ; - 
Sadr Jahan was Akbar’s sadr in the 34th year (about 1589), He diedin 1020 H. 
(1611-12) in Jahangir’s reign; he was said to be 120 years of age, Beale, 229. 
M-ul-U, 111, 348. Pihani is now in the Hardoi district, Oudh Gaz, 111, 160. 
4 Khafi Khan, II, 712, spells the name Abi-l-muhsin Khan, and says he was 
originally from Najaf, the Holy. On the same page the month is Jamadi I instead of 
If. Manikpur and Karrah are both on the Ganges, the former about 45 and the latter 
about 39 m. N.-W. of Allahabad. Sarae Alam Cand is 20 m. N.-W. of the same place. 
