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bulent. Sometimes Miyan Sahib Eoshan Khan was sent eastwards to 

 restore order. This office of Miyan Sahib, or familiar companion of the 

 Nawab, was held by a number of persons in succession. The first was 

 Sa'datmand Khan. He was a boy, named Madan Singh, whom Eoshan Khan 

 captured on one of his expeditions, when he destroyed the village of Sabz- 

 pur (?). When Ahmad Khan saw the lad, he took a fancy to him, made 

 him a Muhammadan and gave him the name of Sa'datmand Khan. A year 

 afterwards he raised him to high rank and gave him the title of Amir-zadah, 

 telling Bakhshi Fakhr-ud-daula that every act done by Amir-zadah Sa'dat- 

 mand Khan was to be considered as final, no one was to interfere. His 

 father, Mandal*Singh, was made ruler of Kanauj. 



The other Miyan Sahibs were : (1) Sa'dat Khan Afridi, (2) Sayyad 

 Nut 'Ali Khan, (3) Mir Jan 'Ali Khan, (4) Eoshan Khan. Sa'dat Khan 

 was the brother of Mahmud Khan, Bakhshi to Nawab Kaim Jang. Ho 

 was appointed during the campaign in the hills (1751-2). One day 

 the Nawab had seen him in the bazar of Sayyad Nur 'Ali Khan and sent 

 for him. Once the Nawab was reading a book, while Sa'dat Khan was 

 seated behind him to the right, engaged in keeping the flies away. 

 Sa'dat Khan in a disrespectful way brushed with the chaunri the head of 

 Nur 'Ali, who was seated next him. The Nawab saw this and said to him^ 

 " The Omnipotent is Lord over all, — 



" Ba-chashm-i-hakdrat ma-bin ba-sue Teas 

 " Kih u mantakam hast, o farydd-ras." 



Now, it was Sa'dat Khan's habit to go every fifth or sixth day to spend 

 the night at his own house in Amethi, returning to his post in the morning. 

 A short time after the above incident, Sa'dat Khan asked for leave to go 

 home. During the night, the Nawab conferred on Nur 'Ali Khan double 

 the dignity and wealth that Sa'dat Khan possessed. At the appointed time 

 Sa'dat Khan appeared, and what should he see, but Sayyad Nur 'Ali adorn- 

 ed with jewels and seated on the edge of the masnad, at the right hand of 

 the Nawab. He fell into great consternation. On his approaching, the 

 Nawab spoke to him — " Look, Sa'dat Khan, at the work of the Causer of 

 " all things, remember yesterday's words, — " 



Ohundn hast an Ichdlik be-nazir, 

 Ba-yah lahza sdzad gadd-rd amir. 

 MaJcun ba sue has az hakdrat nigdh ; 

 Kunad az tahabbar shdhdn rd fakir. 



" Such are the ways of the Creator without equal, in a moment He 

 " makes a beggar into a noble, and turns a king into a beggar." Hearing 



