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Khwajah A‘sim, who had escaped in safety from the battle field at 
Lahor on the day when prince ‘Azimu-sh-shan lost his life, now joined 
Farrukhsiyar at Patnah after a short time spent at his home in Agrah. 
He was at once received into the old position of favour which he had 
held before he had been recalled from Bengal by ‘Azimu-sh-shan. He 
received the title of Ashraf Khan, was made superintendent of the privy 
Audience Chamber, and for a time held in addition the command of the 
artillery. Saf Shikan Khan (Hasan Bég), Deputy Governor of Orissa, _ 
also threw in his lot with Farrukhsiyar, and Mir Mushrif, a Lakhnau 
-Sayyad, joined with some four thousand horsemen belonging to his 
own tribe. Another new adherent was Zainu-d-din Khan, son of Ghairat 
Khan and grandson of Bahadur Khan, Daudzai, of Shahjahaupur in 
Rohilkhand, followed by four thousand brother Pathans.2 Money was 
the great want. Partial relief was afforded by the seizure en route of a 
convoy of 25 or 30 lakhs of rupees, which had reached Patnah on its way 
from Bengal to Dehli.2 Requisitions in kind were also imposed on the 
traders in the city. The amount realized was two or three lakhs of 
rupees. Some money, estimated at from half a lakh to five lakhs of 
rupees, was obtained by the seizure of the Dutch company’s goods, 
their factor at Patnah, Jacob van Hoorn, having died there in July 
1712. Even stronger measures were resorted to. There was one Sirat 
Singh, Khatri, the chief official of Nasir Khan, Deputy Governor of: 
Kabul, who had accumulated great wealth. At this time having deter- 
mined on sending his treasures to Dihli, he had hired fifty or sixty 
bullock carriages and loaded them with all his property, giving out that 
the carts were occupied by a party of his women and children with their 
female servants. They were guarded by a hired force of five hundred 
matchlockmen, and were halting for the night in a certain mansion. 
1 For Bahadur Khan, Daidzai, the founder of Shahjahanpur, see Mu-l-w., I, 415. 
He left seven sons, of whom only two, Dilawar Khan and ‘Aziz Khan, Chaghatai, 
are there named. In T-i-Mhdi, year 1138 H., we have the genealogy stated thus :— 
Darya Khan, d. 1040 H. (1630-1). 
Bahadur Khan, d. 1059 H. (1649-50). 
sical Khan. 
can dua Khan, killed 1124 H. (1713). 
Eileen Khan, killed 1138 H. (1725-6). 
As to Zainu-d-din Khan, his mad doings and rough mode of forcing money out 
of Fath Ma‘mur Khan’s widow at Shahabad (Oudh), see Akhba@r-i-Muhabbat, my copy, 
274, That work says he joined Farrukhsiyar west of Allahabad. 
# Khafi Khan, II, 715, states the sum that thus fell into Farrukhsiyar’s hands 
as 75 lakhs. 
