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When they had consulted together, Nazir Yakut Khan was sent to the 

 Bibi Sahiba. She received him and touching his " nazar" remitted it. 

 Directly she saw him she burst into tears, for he called to mind her own 

 chela, Yakut Khan Khan Bahadur. Yakut Khan, having made a con- 

 doling reference to tbe late Khan Bahadur, went on to deliver his mes- 

 sage. The Wazir said that he would look on her as bis own mother, that 

 Ghazanfar Jang and Kaim Khan had been nobles of the highest rank, 

 and- that their successors should hold the same position. It was absolutely 

 necessary, however, that she should make a payment of one Jcror of rupees. 

 Bibi Hajiain, without consulting the Bibi Sahiba and against her wishes, 

 began to say that as the Bibi Sahiba could not help herself she would give 

 half a Jcror, or fifty lakhs of rupees (£500,000). The Nazir then asked for 

 a blank paper with seal affixed. The Bibi Sahiba, without referring to 

 Shamsher Khan and Ja'far Khan, attached her seal to the paper and made 

 it over to the messenger, who carried it off to the Wazir. Then the Wazir 

 wrote out the sum of sixty lakhs of rupees. After this he told the Bibi 

 Sahiba to return to Farrukkabad, accompanied by Nazir Yakut Khan and 

 Jugal Kishor, who were to receive payment of the money. 



Bajah Naval Eae sent for Shamsher Khan and Ja'far Khan and told 

 them that they were responsible for the due payment to the imperial treasury 

 of the sixty lakhs, which the Bibi Sahiba had agreed to with her own lips. 

 Titles and rent-free grants were promised to them in reward. The chelas 

 went to the Bibi Sahiba and complained of her having promised sixty lakhs, 

 when they had already settled for thirty lakhs. The Bibi Sahiba defended 

 herself by saying is was Bibi Hajiain's fault. There being no remedy the 

 Bibi Sahiba started for Farrukkabad with Yakut Khan and Jugal Kishor. 

 All the cash in the treasury, the jewels, the ward-robe, the furniture of 

 the rooms, the kitchen utensils, the elephants, the horses, the camels, the 

 cannon, the cattle, everything they had, was made over to the Wazir's 

 agents. The eunuchs examined each article, appraised it at half its value, 

 and then from the total thus arrived at they deducted half a lakh of 

 rupees. The sum allowed was forty-five lakhs of rupees. The agents 

 demanded the balance of fifteen lakhs from Shamsher Khan and Ja'far 

 Khan ; but they could only promise to pay the required sum within three 

 years. The Nazir (Yakut Khan) then directed that the Bibi Sahiba should 

 set out next day for the Wazir's camp, where all ne could do to intercede for 

 her should be done. 



The next day the Bibi Sahiba with her sons and chelas set out on her 

 return to the Wazir's camp. When she came to Mau all the Pathans visited 

 her to pay their respects, and from that place joined her retinue. On reach- 

 ing the neighbourhood of the Wazir, she set up her encampment. Next 



